Hi Robert,

Robert Couture wrote to Michiel Broek:
RC> Michiel Broek -> Robert Couture wrote:
RC> 
RC>  MB> If it's a lockfile with a pid in it you can send a kill -0 to that 
RC> pid. The
RC>  MB> exitcode of kill will tell if that pid existed or not.
RC> 
RC> No, it is a zero byte lock file.
RC> 
RC>  MB> Else use find with a test on mtime with a certain age, a couple of 
RC> hours or
RC>  MB> so.
RC> 
RC> Could you whip up a quick example to lead me in the right direction?

I have this in one of my cronjobs:

# Remove formatted man pages not accessed in 10 days
/usr/bin/find /var/man/cat? -atime +10 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \; 2> /dev/null

(If it shows wrapped, the above line should be one line).

Look in the manpage for find how to set shorter times. Point /var/man/cat?
to the lockfile.



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