Package: lockfile-progs Version: 0.1.17 Tags: patch Severity: wishlist During my work with Fixmystreet and Alaveteli from mysociety, I have discovered the usefulness of their run-with-lockfile utility. It is very useful in cron jobs, to ensure only one cron job run at the time. The cron job would look like something like this:
run-with-lockfile -n /some/lock "/some/command args >> /some/log || echo "stalled?" The original implementation is in C, and I planned to upload it to Debian (See WNPP request <URL: http://bugs.debian.org/660216 >). But then I discovered a shell version using the tools in lockfile-progs available from <URL: https://github.com/mysociety/commonlib/blob/master/bin/run-with-lockfile.sh >. Would you be willing to import that script into the lockfile-progs package to make this very useful tool available directly in a Debian package? -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
