From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-05-21T22:40:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Ensuring only one instance of a script is running



On May 20, 10:45 pm, "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.how...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 20, 2008, at 10:25 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:
>
> > The first run will work, but trying to start the program up again will
> > fail instantly because of the lock on DATA. I should probably do some
> > cleanup there, too, but I thought I'd toss this out there and see if
> > this is of interest to anyone.
>
> > Or was I was recovering from a hangover in college when they mentioned
> > this trick in class? Anyway, there you go.
>
> quite interesting, i use self-locking scripts quite often, but DATA is  
> one step shorter ;-)
>
> thanks for the tip.

You're welcome. :)

I've wasted a lot of time with pid files...

Regards,

Dan