lockfiles

[Barry Wiseman]

On 3/21/2012 12:18 PM, William J. McEachran wrote:
> I'm seeing lockfiles left after a demand index is rebuilt on an old system
> recently moved from SCO-Unix to Linux.
> Any ideas why the lockfiles aren't being cleaned up?
>
> 'dxmaint --ver' is 5.7.00D4
>
> It's perms are:
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 filepro daemon 613628 May 31  2011 dxmaint
>
> In fact, as I look at the system it seems to be generating, and leaving a
> lot of lockfiles
> with no development working occuring.
>
> This is on openSUSE 11.4
>
> Thanks.
[once more in plain text]

Do you mean you are getting runtime lockfile errors, or simply that you see "lockfile" objects in the directories?  The latter is completely normal.  When fP binaries terminate (or close files), they should unset the _flags_ contained in the lockfiles.  The lockfiles themselves are not removed.