Odd Global .lockfile problem (multiple replies)

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Silas Martinez propounded (on Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:26:03AM -0700):
| Laura Brody wrote:
| ...
| >
| >    What is an empty lockfile? Please describe.
| >
| >    What is the exact error message when the problem
| >occurs?
| Empty lockfile -
| 
| shell$ cat lockfile
| shell$

Sorry, that does NOT mean the lockfile is "empty".  It's not a text file,
It contains only binary 0s or binary 1s, and that's not going to
print.

Use hd or od.  Or cat -v.

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JP