Re: looking for the 'lockfile' program

[Kumar Appaiah <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 04:31:39PM -0800, Britton Kerin wrote:
> Ok, its part of procmail apparently.
> 
> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Britton Kerin <britton.kerin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to determine if the 'lockfile' program is still available
> > or has been obsoleted for some reason.
> >
> > I'm not looking for lockfile_create or friends, nor flock, but the
> > program described here:
> >
> >      http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_lockfile.htm

For the future, you can easily check things like this by visiting http://packages.debian.org/file:<filename>


For instance,
http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=lockfile

Kumar
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