I'm trying to determine if the 'lockfile' program is still available
or has been obsoleted for some reason.

I'm not looking for lockfile_create or friends, nor flock, but the
program described here:

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_lockfile.htm

Thanks,
Britton


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Ok, its part of procmail apparently.

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Britton Kerin <britton.kerin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to determine if the 'lockfile' program is still available
> or has been obsoleted for some reason.
>
> I'm not looking for lockfile_create or friends, nor flock, but the
> program described here:
>
> http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_lockfile.htm
>
> Thanks,
> Britton


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On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 04:31:39PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote:
> Ok, its part of procmail apparently.
>
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Britton Kerin <britton.kerin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to determine if the 'lockfile' program is still available
> > or has been obsoleted for some reason.
> >
> > I'm not looking for lockfile_create or friends, nor flock, but the
> > program described here:
> >
> > http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_lockfile.htm

For the future, you can easily check things like this by visiting http://packages.debian.org/file:<filename>


For instance,
http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=lockfile

Kumar
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On 10/02/2012 08:29 PM, Britton Kerin wrote:

I'm trying to determine if the 'lockfile' program is still available
or has been obsoleted for some reason.

I'm not looking for lockfile_create or friends, nor flock, but the
program described here:

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_lockfile.htm

Thanks,
Britton



Squeeze & testing have a lockfile-progs

ie apt-cache search lockfile*

Description-en: Programs for locking and unlocking files and mailboxes
This package includes several programs to safely lock and unlock
files and mailboxes from the command line. These include:
.
lockfile-create
lockfile-remove
lockfile-touchlock
mail-lock
mail-unlock
mail-touchlock
.
These programs use liblockfile to perform the file locking and
unlocking, so they are guaranteed compatible with Debian's
file locking policies.

HTH

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