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called "lock" can link to an IP:Port. I kind of think of a link being a
shortcut to another file located elsewhere. Is this the unix approach of
every device being a file?

On 5/8/07, Scott Balneaves <sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:30:30PM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> > On Tue, 08 May 2007, Scott Ledyard wrote:
> >
> > > About once a week, a student approaches me and says that Firefox is
> > > broken. When you try to run Firefox, a message comes up that says that
> > > it's already running.  Re-logging in does not help. The end-of-day
> > > reboot does! This was a problem in Edubuntu thin client 6.10 and now
> > > in 7.04.
> >
> > Firefox stops people from running it twice on the same profile.  This is
> to
> > prevent nasty behaviour such as two copies of firefox trying to both
> modify
> > your bookmarks file at the same time.
>
> Depending on what's mucked up, you might also have to remove the lock
> file.
>
> Scott
>
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> Scott L. Balneaves | "Eternity is a very long time,
> Systems Department |  especially towards the end."
> Legal Aid Manitoba |    -- Woody Allen
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Yeah. The mozilla site says to kill any extra processes, then zap that file.<br><br>From a &quot;just curious&quot; standpoint, I still don&#39;t quite understand how a file called &quot;lock&quot; can link to an IP:Port. I kind of think of a link being a shortcut to another file located elsewhere. Is this the unix approach of every device being a file?
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Scott Balneaves</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca">sbalneav at legalaid.mb.ca</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:30:30PM +0100, Gavin McCullagh wrote:<br>&gt; On Tue, 08 May 2007, Scott Ledyard wrote:<br>&gt;<br>&gt; &gt; About once a week, a student approaches me and says that Firefox is<br>&gt; &gt; broken. When you try to run Firefox, a message comes up that says that
<br>&gt; &gt; it&#39;s already running.&nbsp;&nbsp;Re-logging in does not help. The end-of-day<br>&gt; &gt; reboot does! This was a problem in Edubuntu thin client 6.10 and now<br>&gt; &gt; in 7.04.<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Firefox stops people from running it twice on the same profile.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is to
<br>&gt; prevent nasty behaviour such as two copies of firefox trying to both modify<br>&gt; your bookmarks file at the same time.<br><br>Depending on what&#39;s mucked up, you might also have to remove the lock<br>file.<br>
<br>Scott<br><br>--<br>Scott L. Balneaves | &quot;Eternity is a very long time,<br>Systems Department |&nbsp;&nbsp;especially towards the end.&quot;<br>Legal Aid Manitoba |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-- Woody Allen<br></blockquote></div><br>

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