on Wed, 02 Jan 2002 12:20:14AM -0500, dman insinuated: > | as for anything i know about lockfiles, > | > | orange:~> ls -la /var/lock/ > | total 2 > | drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Jan 1 07:36 ./ > | drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 1024 Aug 22 11:03 ../ > | > | ... nothing having to do with a lockfile on xscreensaver. would it be > | there? if not, where? > > I would expect to find it under ~ somewhere, but I don't see one > here either. To continue with my example from before, everybuddy > dumps its pid in ~/.everybuddy/.lock. The next time it is run it > looks for that file, and if it is found checks to see if that > process is running. If it is run early on one time and the lock > file is left behind, then the next time a gnome-terminal or > something may get that pid and everybuddy (incorrectly) thinks it is > already running. (this happens if I shut down frequently)
this all makes sense, but there's no file anywhere on my system with the word 'lock' in it that has anything to do with xscreensaver ... still confused. </nori> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>-------------------------------------------------- -------------------------http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/daily.html
