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 -- William Dunn Unix / Linux Administrator Virginia Tech Computer Science Department wdunn at cs.vt.edu / 540-231-3167