[CentOS-mirror] ANN: withlock - reliable & easy locking for cron jobs
Randy McAnally
rsm at fast-serv.com
Mon Feb 22 03:08:00 UTC 2010
This is what I use:
http://djlab.com/2009/10/lockfiles-in-bash/
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Randy
---------- Original Message -----------
From: Peter Pöml <poeml at cmdline.net>
To: centos-mirror at centos.org
Sent: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:52:11 +0100
Subject: [CentOS-mirror] ANN: withlock - reliable & easy locking for cron jobs
> Hi,
>
> [Apologies to those of you who received this mail more than once,
> due to crossposting to different forums in order to reach most
> relevant people]
>
> This is a one-time post to announce the creation of "withlock" - a
> locking wrapper script to make sure that some program isn't run more
> than once. It is ideal to prevent periodic jobs spawned by cron from
> stacking up. The locks created are valid only while the wrapper is
> running, and thus will *never* require additional cleanup, even
> after a reboot. This makes the wrapper safe and easy to use, and
> much better than implementing half-hearted locking within scripts.
>
> Usage is simple. Instead of your command
> CMD ARGS...
>
> you simply use
> withlock LOCKFILE CMD ARGS...
>
> If you are a mirror admin, there is a 99.9% chance that you might
> want to use this locking wrapper. Likely you ran into the situation
> where a script was (unexpectedly...) not finished before it was
> started another time; and/or you actually hacked some kind of
> locking into a script to prevent that from happening.
>
> Since I suffered the same situation for some years, I looked around
> for solutions, and since I couldn't find one, I finally took the
> time to create one. The resulting wrapper is used in production
> since summer 2009, and proved to work reliably. Put the wrapper
> around all your cron jobs and be happy :-)
>
> Use cases are to be found not only in mirroring, but that's where I
> come from, so I know that this will be useful for you guys.
>
> Home page: http://code.google.com/p/withlock/
>
> Features:
> - locks that never need a cleanup, whatever happens
> - can wait a defined time for a lock to become "free"
> - disallows lock files in unsafe locations (to prevent symlink
> attacks) - easily installed (it's just one file), highly portable
>
> Requirements:
> - Python 2.4 or newer
> - lots of platforms are supported (see list on home page)
>
> For more information, please come to
> http://code.google.com/p/withlock/ .
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
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