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On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:46:58PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote:
> My suggestion would be to move the invocation of lockfile into the 
> runjob script itself, so that your crontab is smaller and less 
> cluttered, and your runjob scripts become smart enough to fend for 
> themselves.

Or use a service controller (e.g. svc -o /service/foo). The service controller
guarantees that only one instance of the service will be active at any one
time. Combine this with starting the service just once. Bonus: no lock files
needed at all.

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