HA-Tools

The HA-Tools provide some programs to improve shell scripting in a High Availability environment.
The halockrun program provides a simple and reliable way to implement a locking in shell scripts. A typical usage for halockrun is to prevent cronjobs to run simultanously. halockrun uses a lock on a file via fcntl(2) which ensures the release of the lock even if the process gets killed via SIGKILL.
The hatimerun program provides a time-out mechanism which can be used from shell scripts.

Documentation

man halockrun
man hatimerun

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V2.10 - 04. May 2009
Minor feature and usability enhancements.

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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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