Setperms Problems

[Tim Fischer]

It was actually locked on the file system level.

Tim Fischer




Bob Stockler wrote:

>Tim Fischer wrote (on Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:49:07PM -0400):
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>| Ok - I think I figured out what was going on the other day (though it 
>| wouldn't explain the processing issues, but we'll tackle that some other 
>| time).  We had some big problems this morning with files being locked.  
>| I'm still not too sure *what* was causing the locks, but those file 
>| locks froze dxmaint, setperms, *clerk, etc.  I'm chalking the setperms 
>| issue of last week to the file locking issue as well.
>| 
>| If this didn't make sense to anyone and they're curious, just email me - 
>| I'll try to explain it better.
>| 
>| Bob, thanks for the suggestions you had.  The -xv came in very useful to 
>| figure out which file was locked. 
>
>You're welcome, but I don't think filePro lockfiles could have
>any affect on how setperms works.  It's a shell script, and the
>shell has no notion of filePro lockfiles, other that they are
>regular files.
>
>Bob
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