Hi There,
I use below code to make sure i have only one instance of my script
running at a time. But weirdly enough i sometimes seem to have running
two instances. This script is getting called on a regular basis by a
cron job and may take a long time (30+min)to complete but still...I
can't figure out what would be wrong with this code, anyone?
#[PID]
#Check if PID file already exists
if ( -s $PIDloc){
print "THERE IS ALREADY AN INSTANCE OF UPDATESERVER RUNNING\n
check \"".$PIDloc."\"\n";
syslog('info',"THERE IS ALREADY AN INSTANCE OF UPDATESERVER RUNNING
\n check \"".$PIDloc."\"");
exit(999);
}
#if it doesn't exist, create it (gets ereased atr the bottom of MAIN
on completion)
my $pid = $$;
open my $fd,'>', $PIDloc or die $!;
print $fd $pid;
close $fd or die $!;
#[/PID]
Thanks for any hints or suggestions!
Ron
PS $PIDloc is srt to "/var/run/UpdtSrv.pid"
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