Silvian Cretu wrote:

Hi! I am now mirroring CentOS and I would like to use lock files so that I don't start multiple connections at the same time. I don't know how to do this... The CentOS Mirroring HowTo 'told' me that this mailing list can help me! Thank you in advance...

If you want to create a lock file without a race condition, you could use the 'lockfile' command. The man page even shows simple example quasi-script.

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