[IRCServices] out of buffer?

Torbjörn Svensson azoff at se.linux.org
Tue Jan 25 00:05:58 PST 2005


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Andrew Church wrote:
|      On second thought, Services always creates a lock file (.lock by
| default) in the data directory while it's writing, and refuses to write
| if the file exists, so you could do something like (in Perl):
|
| 	sysopen LOCK, "/.../.lock", O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0 or die "locked\n";
| 	system("ircservices -export");
| 	close LOCK;
| 	unlink "/.../.lock";

Ahh, nice. Just the signal missing ;)

Also, if ircservices is started with -export it will generat some rows
in the log, here's an cut-n-paste of it:
[Jan 24 19:04:01 2005] IRC Services 5.0.44 starting up
[Jan 24 19:04:01 2005] Terminating, reason unknown

The reason shouldn't been 'unkown' ;)

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