From: carvalho@tribiet.uucp (Joe Carvalho) Subject: Re: taylor uucp leaves stale lockfiles Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 05:57:37 GMT
Pete Bergstrom (pb@stroberg.uucp) wrote:
: In article <1993Apr21.032116.10437@victrola.sea.wa.us> vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
: After setting up a uucp link with another Linux Taylor UUCP site (1525 cps
: both ways...wow!)
: I've been informed that after I call them there are stale lockfiles left in
: /usr/spool/uucp that have to be manually removed :-(
: Anybody seen this and/or have any ideas ?
: Actually, it's something I've been noticing for the last few weeks -
: probably since an upgrade to .99.7a or something like that. I can't
: remember if I've recompiled uucp, etc. since I upgraded the shared
: libraries to 4.3.3. One of these days...
Stuff deleted...sorry.
UUCP 1.04 has been leaving stale lockfiles for quite some time. The files don't
really do any harm, as the next process to need the port should look in the
lockfile for the pid and check to see if that pid is still alive. I think.
--joe