Problem with lockfile in update_virus_scanners

[Julian Field]

Your patch will only work on GNU "find" and nothing else, as other "find"
commands can only report in days.
This will do a rather better job:

[ x`perl -e 'print "young" if -f "'$LOCKFILE'" && -M "'$LOCKFILE'"<0.042'`
= "xyoung" ] && exit 0

but note that perl must be on your $PATH, which is true for most people. If
it is not on your $PATH, it will simply behave as if the check is not there
at all, which isn't too dangerous as it only affects a few people anyway.
Even people that use /usr/local/bin/perl and don't have it on their root
$PATH tend to have a symlink from /usr/bin/perl just for their own ease of use.

At 12:33 28/04/2004, you wrote:
>Something like this should do the trick.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
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