Comments on: How Can I Tell If My Bash Script Is Already Running? – Part 2 http://www.franzone.com/2008/03/18/how-can-i-tell-if-my-bash-script-is-already-running-part-2/ thoughts of a web geek Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:53:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Richard Strand http://www.franzone.com/2008/03/18/how-can-i-tell-if-my-bash-script-is-already-running-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3829 Richard Strand Wed, 07 May 2008 11:04:41 +0000 http://www.franzone.com/2008/03/18/how-can-i-tell-if-my-bash-script-is-already-running-part-2/#comment-3829 The flock source code can be downloaded from the kernel.org ftp server ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/script/flock/ The flock source code can be downloaded from the kernel.org ftp server
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/software/utils/script/flock/

]]> By: dotpointer http://www.franzone.com/2008/03/18/how-can-i-tell-if-my-bash-script-is-already-running-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-3014 dotpointer Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:51:51 +0000 http://www.franzone.com/2008/03/18/how-can-i-tell-if-my-bash-script-is-already-running-part-2/#comment-3014 Seems like there are different flavours of this command depending on what *nix system you're running. Here you may download flock for Linux (yay)? http://sv.afterdawn.com/programvara/alternativa_plattformar/linux/flock_linux.cfm Seems like there are different flavours of this command depending on what *nix system you’re running. Here you may download flock for Linux (yay)?

http://sv.afterdawn.com/programvara/alternativa_plattformar/linux/flock_linux.cfm

]]> By: Jonathan Franzone http://www.franzone.com/2008/03/18/how-can-i-tell-if-my-bash-script-is-already-running-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2980 Jonathan Franzone Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:44:19 +0000 http://www.franzone.com/2008/03/18/how-can-i-tell-if-my-bash-script-is-already-running-part-2/#comment-2980 Thanks for your comments, "dotpointer". I really like this command on the CentOS servers that I run. The only problem is that I'm also running a few Fedora Core servers and the command doesn't seem to be available for them. /cry Thanks for your comments, “dotpointer”. I really like this command on the CentOS servers that I run. The only problem is that I’m also running a few Fedora Core servers and the command doesn’t seem to be available for them. /cry

]]> By: dotpointer http://www.franzone.com/2008/03/18/how-can-i-tell-if-my-bash-script-is-already-running-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2920 dotpointer Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:42:43 +0000 http://www.franzone.com/2008/03/18/how-can-i-tell-if-my-bash-script-is-already-running-part-2/#comment-2920 Hmm wrong of me, I misunderstood the command I guess. Hmm wrong of me, I misunderstood the command I guess.

]]> By: dotpointer http://www.franzone.com/2008/03/18/how-can-i-tell-if-my-bash-script-is-already-running-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2919 dotpointer Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:40:25 +0000 http://www.franzone.com/2008/03/18/how-can-i-tell-if-my-bash-script-is-already-running-part-2/#comment-2919 On Slackware 12 you need to touch the lockfile, and then you may skip (?) the -xn. touch /var/lock/yourlockfile flock /var/lock/yourlockfile /yourcommand On Slackware 12 you need to touch the lockfile, and then you may skip (?) the -xn.

touch /var/lock/yourlockfile
flock /var/lock/yourlockfile /yourcommand

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