Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:50:39 +0000 From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab Message-ID: <20001210225039.A40111@walton.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001209223834.82272B-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:42:41PM -0500 References: <200012092254.eB9Msbk55407@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001209223834.82272B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:42:41PM -0500, Robert Watson wrote: > On a related note, this is also more susceptible to cascading failure, as > it queues the work rather than canceling it if resources aren't available. We use something like the suggested, which skips the job if the old one is still running: lockf -s -t 0 /var/run/vm-fault-cleaner.lock /local/etc/vm-fault-cleaner.pl || true You need the "|| true" to stop crontab complaining about the job failing. David. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20001210225039.A40111>