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description: Messages from Usenet group comp.lang.idl-pvwave, compiled by Paulo Penteado
items: Vanishing PV-Wave lock file

Vanishing PV-Wave lock file
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description: We have a recurring problem with the PV-Wave license manager (FlexLM) on SunOS. This happened yesterday, once in January, and once in November. I can't figure out why it doesn't happen more often. The problem is that the file /usr/tmp/lockPVI disappeared. After that the license manager quit working. Shutting it down and restarting cured the problem. I am pretty sure that the file disappeared because of these lines in a cron job that runs daily: cd /usr/tmp find . ! -name . -atime +7 -exec rm -f {} \; Thus any file more than a week old in /usr/tmp is deleted. Why doesn't this bite us every week? The file's access and modification times don't seem to change when PV-Wave is used. I think I will put in a kluge to touch the file daily. Any better ideas? -- * Patrick L. Nolan (415)723-0133 * * W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL) * * Stanford University * * Bitnet: PLN@SLACVM Internet: pln@egret0.stanford.edu *
creator: pln
date: 1993-03-31T22:21:09-00:00