SCO idleout time causing lockfile problems?

[Kenneth Brody]

On 3/27/2012 3:14 PM, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
> Kenneth Brody propounded (on Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:10:02AM -0400):
> | On 3/27/2012 7:40 AM, Mike Schwartz wrote:
> |>        On SCO Openserver 5.0.6 with filePro 5.6, would the SCO idleout command
> |>  be causing them any file locking or other difficulties?
> |
> | It depends.  What signal does it use to kill idle programs?
>
>
> On a 5.0.7 machine, idleout (which is a shell script) carries a date of
> 1996; I imagine the 5,0,5 version was pretty much the same.  A 'grep
> kill' command turns up several instances, all of them 'kill -9'.
[...]

In that case, there's your answer.  It is not possible to catch a "kill -9" 
signal, so filePro cannot clean up on the way out.

-- 
Kenneth Brody