Re: [Mldonkey-users] Feature request: Locking

[Andre Hinrichs]

Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2003 23:21 schrieb Sven Hartge:
> Hi.
>
> I just accidently lost all the hashes of my own shared files, because
> out of an error I had two mldonkeys running.
>
> I think it would be best, if mldonkey did some sort of locking to
> recognize, if it already running and to warn the user, who can, if
> really no other mldonkey is using the files, just release the lock to
> start mldonkey.

If you use a script starting the mldonkey client there is a simple way to 
prevent this: use the 'checkproc' tool!
If you just type 'checkproc mldonkey' the tool will check if there is any tool 
running with this name. But you can also give the path.
Just read the manpage and feel happy...


Andre