> Did you find a way to set the filename to "temp_file.lock"? The OP has > obviously RTFM.
Is no problem now with: open LOCK_FH , ">$file_name" or die "cannot create hanlde!\n"; . . . close LOCK_FH; unlink ( $file_name ) or warn "cannot delete !\n"; I can do what I want to do. I just thought that tempfile can do all this in one step. As you sayed, my file has the purpose to lock other instances of the perl-script so only one can run at a time. Thank you Gruss Christian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
