Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> writes:
> A wait & retry mechanism could be implemented, but... will it delay the
> remaining cron daily jobs, as well?
Yes it would. At least when run serialy.
So maybe an at job would be better. If the file is locked run the
script aagin in now+10m with --retry <N>. If N exceeds 6 fail.
Something like that.
MfG
Goswin