> in any event, i wasn't sure if this was the problem; however removing
> the locks generally fixes the problems (ie messages on the list won't
> appear and after removing the locks, they do).
There may well be locking issues, but the future timestamp
is not evidence. Try checking for the PIDs;
Dan Mick wrote:
> What you're seeing is that the lock file timestamp is in the future,
> and that's by design; the file timestamp is used as the 'expiration
> time' to break stale locks. It's normal behavior. Do you think it's
> causing problems?
>
> (This 'feature' of ls is not well known, b
