[rrd-users] Re: unlocking an RRD? (fwd)

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

Chris Majewski wrote:

> Folks
> I'm updating a bunch of rrd's.
> I  had to  kill the  update processes  because they  were tying  up my
> machine.
> Now I'm getting "could not lock RRD".
> Is there a way to break the locks?

What kind of locks?  Normally a lock is removed when the process dies.
If your OS (which OS?) does things differently, maybe you can find 
a directory or so where lock files are kept, or a file in the same
directory as the .rrd file, or special permissions on the .rrd file.

---> don't <--- mail me to specify your OS.  Even if I know this I
cannot help.  Next time you mail to the list, specify your OS.


Read the manual pages.  Perhaps they show you how locking works on
your system.  "man lockf" seems to be a candidate, with "man flock"
as a good runner up.

The manual page for lockf cannot be found in the rrdtool documentation,
it is (or: should be) in your system documentation.


If this all doesn't help, maybe you can copy the file to another
directory or name, rename the original file then rename the copy
back to the original name.  Don't know it that'll work.  Example:
   cp my.rrd my.backup
   mv my.rrd my.locked
   mv my.backup my.rrd
Of course you don't do step 3 if step 1 and/or step 2 failed.  Even
then you do this at your own risc.  Don't blame me if it goes wrong
and you destroy your .rrd file.


HTH
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