On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Jos Chrispijn <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can someone tell me what this file exactly is for? > Got the message 'Stale lock file found. Removed' running 'portupgrade -a'. > > thanks, > Jos Chrispijn > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [email protected]" > The point is to indicate that a process (e.g., portupgrade) is currently running. Multiple instances of portupgrade running at the same time might do some strange things. As W. Puchar says, portupgrade detected the lock file (from a previous unfinished instance), but there were no current portupgrade processes running. Thus, the lockfile was "stale", and was deleted. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
