Karanbir Singh wrote:
William Dunn wrote:
I made my own lockfiles, and I know they're not as robust as they should be, but I did it in a hurry, and so far they've worked.
#!/bin/bash if [ -f /root/rsync-scripts/centos.lockfile ] then echo "lock file exists, exiting..." exit fi #echo "creating lock file..." touch /root/rsync-scripts/centos.lockfile rsync -aqzH --partial --delete us-msync.centos.org::CentOS /home/ftp/pub/CentOS rm -f /root/rsync-scripts/centos.lockfile
i dont think this is actually going to work on a win2k3 machine, without some external aid (!)
Well, you'd think someone would get around to inventing some way for email to carry a little one line tag telling you the subject of the email! It would avoid these awkward situations! Yar!
.. Can you do the same thing in perl on Windows? I know active state has been putting out some perl stuff for windows for a while....
~Will