Hi Troy,
there were still a couple of minor problems. For example, it's broken on
64bit. And I really didn't understand the [ ! -a <filename> ] tests.
I've put up a a slightly hacked version here:
http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~wiesand/parentlock/
Cheers,
Stephan
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Hello,
> This rpm is designed to fix the "Home Area in AFS" parentlock fix.
>
> The problem is triggered when your home area is in AFS, and you use firefox,
> thunderbird, and/or seamonkey. Not always, but often, when you stop and
> restart firefox (or thunderbird, or seamonkey) the lock file, called
> parentlock, is not removed. This makes it hard to start up your browser
> again.
>
> Ftp:
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/30rolling/testing/i386/RPMS/browsers/SL_firefox_parentlock_fix-1.0-3.noarch.rpm
> ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40rolling/testing/i386/RPMS/browsers/SL_firefox_parentlock_fix-1.0-3.noarch.rpm
>
> Yum - S.L. 4.x
> yum --enablerepo=sl-testing install SL_firefox_parentlock_fix
>
> The rpm has already been tested on several computers, and we believe it works
> well. But we would like others to test it more before it goes out.
>
> Thanks
> Troy
>
>
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Stephan Wiesand
DESY - DV - Phone: +49 33762 7 7370
Platanenallee 6 Fax: +49 33762 7 7216
15738 Zeuthen, Germany