Professional Software Engineering wrote:
<> >enough the other person's lockfile will be removed or will be deemed stale.)
<> >Does a verbose logfile say that the lockfile couldn't be acquired?
<>
<> Verbose isn't normally on (whoa, no way am I doing that with the volume of
<> spam filtering that goes on, combined with the volume of mail I
<> receive). Seeing as this process thoroughly thrashes the system, I'm not
<> particularly enamoured of repeating it: I'd just as soon make the changes
<> that SHOULD fix the problem, then run a controlled test to confirm that it
<> is fixed.
Just wrap the section with the "not global lock" in VERBOSE=yes/no; you
might even have it write to a separate logfile ...
RL
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