locking bayes?

[Greg Matthews]

I have developed a shell script that takes uses LVM snapshots to backup 
volumes on a mail server. I am able to get a read-lock on the MySQL 
MailWatch table and was wondering if I could do the same with the bayes 
database to ensure it is consistent.

At the moment, I am relying on the robustness of BerkeleyDB to be able 
to recover from a possibly inconsistent state. This is not ideal.

The snapshot process is very quick so the lock could be released almost 
immediately.

GREG
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Greg Matthews           01491 692445
Head of UNIX/Linux, iTSS Wallingford

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