hatools

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.

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