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 > > -- Stephan Wiesand DESY - DV - Phone: +49 33762 7 7370 Platanenallee 6 Fax: +49 33762 7 7216 15738 Zeuthen, Germany