Re: Only one instance of a script at a time !

Another idea, run a script that opens a file and flocks it until it's executed. I am sorry if this is dumb as I have little experience on locking files, but, I guess if it's locked it won't get opened again and executed (via include() or eval()); -- Julio Nobrega. Um dia eu chego lá: http://sourceforge.net/projects/toca Ajudei? Salvei? Que tal um presentinho? http://www.submarino.com.br/wishlistclient.asp?wlid=664176742884 "Jerry Verhoef" <jverhoef@ugbi.nl> wrote in message news:1CDA86C6527BD311B91F0008C784121003D551DF@ugbiex1... > Pseudo code: > > check if pid file exists > yes -> DIE > no -> write pid file > > At end of script > delete pid file > > Jerry Verhoef > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicolas Guilhot [mailto:nguilhot@gphy.campus.univ-poitiers.fr] > Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 3:32 PM > To: Php General MailingList > Subject: [PHP] Only one instance of a script at a time ! > > > Running a php script with a cron job, how can I do to have only one instance > of the script running ? > > Thanks for any answer. > > > Nicolas > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > The information contained in this email is confidential and > may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the > addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is > unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any > form of disclosure, production, distribution or any action > taken or refrained from in reliance on it, is prohibited and > may be unlawful. Please notify the sender immediately. > > The content of the email is not legally binding unless > confirmed by letter bearing two authorized signatures.