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Re: Daily scheduled job, but need to check if previous job has

Eliot

2007-11-30, 7:35 am

I guess what I'm concerned about is that if the touch file
..IN_PROGRESS
is left behind due to some untidy shutdown then when cron kicks off
the script again, it exits because it thinks a previous run is still
in progress.