QUESTION

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008, Robert Pulliam wrote:
>
>    I  have employees who are key pounders.  AT the end of the day there
>   is a process - ie a batch file with 35 command lines
>   that must be executed every day.  If they hit the enter key twice or
>   more with their pounding this process runs exactly that many times.
>   Using filepro - sco unix.  Is there a unix command that would
>   intercept the multiple enters or could i exit the entire batch file
>   with a filepro command.

Why aren't you running this from cron?

I often use the shlock program from the inn usenet news handler
to manage lock files so that jobs can check for the existance of
running instances.

Bill
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