I believe your solution will also remove a valid lockfile, ain't it?

daRcmaTTeR wrote:

 > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Richard Bonebrake wrote:
 >
 >
 >>I am using Mandrake 8.2 as a server. I have postfix doing the mail 
and have
 >>gnu_pop3d running as the pop3 server. If a user drops connection for 
some
 >>reason while he is getting his mail, it will leave the lock file in 
place.
 >>The lock file will never be removed. Is there a place to configure 
this to
 >>be removed in say 10 or 15 minutes or is there a way to run some other
 >>software to check for loss of connection and then clear the lock 
file. I am
 >>new to Linux so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
 >>
 >>Richard D. Bonebrake
 >>Asquith Internet
 >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 >>
 >>
 >
 > Richard,
 >
 > probably the easiest thing you could do for this would be to use a small
 > shell script to check for the existence of the lockfile, and if it does
 > exist to simply remove it.
 >
 > ==========================
 > #!/bin/sh
 >
 > filename=/var/path/to/filename.lock
 >
 > # test for lockfile
 > if [ -e "$filename" ]
 >      rm -f $filename
 > fi
 > ==========================
 >
 > now, just chmod this little guy 755 and set a cron job to run twice an
 > hour and that should take care of the problem of the lingering lockfile.

wooky


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