Brock Rozen har Jun 1, ytret følgende ord om ,,Re: The Safe backup in
procmailex'':
: On Fri, 30 May 1997, era eriksson wrote:
: > how about saving the day's or week's messages to a temporary file and
: > then run a daily/weekly cron job to merge in the new file and keep the
: > 1750 newest messages?
:
: It's a great idea -- but now I'm worried about one thing. What if, during
: the crontab job -- a new message is written to the daily file?
Use lockfile(1) then, to create a file the same name as the lockfile,
and then rm -f it when you have messed around your folders as you please.
e.g.
lockfile ${HOME}/Mail/folder.lock
###
### Clean up script
###
rm -f ${HOME}/Mail/folder.lock
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