Re: [CentOS-mirror] 4.3 free drive space

On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 12:44:55AM -0500, Zenon Panoussis wrote:

The downside of lockfiles is that if your script crashes they stay behind and keep blocking until you realise it and remove them manually. A somewhat better way to do this could be to look for the process. Something like

Actually, a lock-file should have the PID in it, and checking the lock file would involve checking to see if the PID exists, and if not you nuke the lockfile.

That said, I had a rsync hang up for 2 weeks once, and so now I have a script from cron that once every day or two kills all the running rsyncs and removes all the lock files. Since then, I haven't had any issues with stuck mirrors.

Thanks, Sean