Re: Need help understanding this message

2009-03-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 08:37:50AM -0700, Paul E Condon was heard to say: > /usr/bin/updatedb.mlocate: `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db' is locked (probably > by > +an earlier updatedb) (snip) > LOCKFILE="/var/lib/mlocate/daily.lock" > > trap "rm -f $LOCKFILE" EXIT (snip) I don't know mloc

Need help understanding this message

2009-03-02 Thread Paul E Condon
The help I need is what I might call 'deep' help. I know 'who' is sending the message, and why, but how do I fix the problem? Included is an email that I get from the daily cron job on a host that I have named 'gq'. I have two other machines that never send this message. All are similarly configur