lockfiles

[Kenneth Brody]

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?

Define "aren't being cleaned up".

What error(s) are you getting?

> '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.

Ah...  You seem to think that the mere existence of a lockfile is a problem. 
  Unless there is something wrong with the *contents* of the lockfile (which 
should be all zeros if no one is accessing the file), there is nothing wrong 
with a lockfile existing.  In fact, if you went into a file and a lockfile 
*weren't* generated, it would mean something is seriously wrong.

> This is on openSUSE 11.4

-- 
Kenneth Brody