Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!letni!void!ozdaltx!root From: root@ozdaltx.UUCP (root) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco Subject: many UUXQTs running at once. (semi-fix) Message-ID: <7057@ozdaltx.UUCP> Date: 15 Oct 90 13:52:45 GMT Organization: AIDS INFO EXCG/OZ BBS - Dallas, TX Lines: 26 I recall a recent request for help here, but I guess the original article has expired. With 4 news feeds, I had the problem of multiple uuxqts running at once, really bringing the system to a crawl. Thanks to a couple of suggestions, i did the following: I wrote a shell script to replace /usr/lib/uucp/uuxqt and renamed uuxqt to uuxqt.bin. Changing necessary permissions and ownerships. The script is basicly- if test -f /usr/spool/uucp/LCK.XQT then exit else exec /usr/lib/uucp/uuxqt.bin fi The same could be done with a C program, but the code would be much larger than necessary. BTW, does anyone know that the two characters in LCK.XQT represent? Process ID perhaps? Thanks... scotty root@ozdaltx