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Home > Forums > MIS/IT > Operating Systems - UNIX based > Linux (server) Forum

files in /var/lock/subsys ?

inetd (TechnicalUser)

9 Mar 03 23:37

I have found most of the startup scripts has a line that touch a file in /var/lock/subsys. What does this mean?

For example:
/var/lock/subsys/xinetd
/var/lock/subsys/sendmail
/var/lock/subsys/named

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Morsing (TechnicalUser)

10 Mar 03 3:30

This is to make sure the same process doesn't start up twice. If you run the startup script again, it will check the file, realise it's already running and exit.

Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

inetd (TechnicalUser)

10 Mar 03 20:17

The system checks it or the start up script checks it?

If the system lost power suddenly, the file will remain there and does the start up script start in next boot?

Thanks.

bluegroper (TechnicalUser)

11 Mar 03 0:28

Prolly realise its a "stale" lockfile, and clean itself up.

ß

Morsing (TechnicalUser)

11 Mar 03 3:32

It's only the startup script that checks it. (There's really no such thing as "the system").

You can always just delete it manually if it causes problems.

Cheers

Henrik Morsing
Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration
& p690 Technical Support

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