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. -- Dave Thompson ( thomas (at) cs.wisc.edu ) Associate Researcher Department of Computer Science University of Wisconsin-Madison http://www.cs.wisc.edu/(twiddle)thomas 1210 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706-1685 -- ------- End of Forwarded Message