From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 23 10:50:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2022F37B401 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:50:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from kirk.dlee.org (pool-138-88-115-98.res.east.verizon.net [138.88.115.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 549E443E9C for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 10:50:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgl@kirk.dlee.org) Received: from kirk.dlee.org (dgl@localhost.dlee.org [127.0.0.1]) by kirk.dlee.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gANIoIqc003145 for ; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:50:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgl@kirk.dlee.org) Received: (from dgl@localhost) by kirk.dlee.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id gANIoIuc003144 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:50:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dgl) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:50:18 -0500 From: Doug Lee To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Is this a good time for a procmail global lock file? Message-ID: <20021123185018.GJ55241@kirk.dlee.org> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Lee , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Organization: Bartimaeus Group Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG procmailrc(5) advises us to use per-recipe local lock files instead of using the LOCKFILE environment variable to set up a global one. I use LOGFILE to log abstracts for deliveries though, and at busy moments, these abstracts are getting intermingled, making it impossible for scripts to process them accurately. Is there a better way to prevent this than using the evil global lock file? -- Doug Lee dgl@dlee.org http://www.dlee.org Bartimaeus Group doug@bartsite.com http://www.bartsite.com There is more freedom in knowing how to handle pain than in knowing how to avoid it. (4/29/01) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message