[ale] sometimes I hate bash

[Jim Kinney]

script runs all hunky-dorey in userland.

so time to put it into cron. To cover my bases for inferior cron
environemnt, the first thing the script does is . ~/.bash_profile which in
turn runs ~/.bash_rc which runs /etc/bashrc

So it now looks just like a login env.

maybe...

Except somehow it now spawns _2_ copies of the running process and the race
is on! <insert appropriate swearing here>

Since it's highly sequence dependent data processing and database insertion
and database processing, multiple out of order steps is very, VERY bad.

Solution: make the first line a -f test for a pid file and exit if it
exists. The second line writes the pid file. Shouldn't have to do this...

Still totally stumped on the multiple simultaneous processes.

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James P. Kinney III
Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness
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