From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 4 14:39:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02341 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 14:39:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from darla.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (Modem1113.internet.dk [194.255.12.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02168 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 14:38:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@internet.dk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by darla.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA02000 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 23:37:32 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@internet.dk) Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 23:37:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Leif Neland X-Sender: leifn@darla.swimsuit.roskildebc.dk To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: how to lock file opened by vi/joe Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I want to make a cgiscript append a line to a file, but sometimes this file is opened by the editor joe. How do I prevent the script from writing to this file when it is already open? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message