#!/usr/bin/perl my $host = $ARGV[0]; my $known_hosts = './kh.tt'; ##USE '>>' OTHERWISE WE WILL TRUNCATE AT open() - BEFORE WE HAVE THE LOCK!! #do{ # print 'Error opening ssh known hosts file : ', $!, "\n"; # exit; #}unless( open KNOWN_HOSTS, ">> $known_hosts" ); open LOCK, "> $known_hosts.sem" or die "Can't open semaphore: $!\n"; ##lock the file my $lock_tries = 3; my $got_lock = 0; GETLOCK: while( $lock_tries ) { print "TRYING FOR LOCK ($lock_tries)\n"; #if( flock(KNOWN_HOSTS, LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB) ) my $ret = flock(LOCK, LOCK_EX|LOCK_NB); print "Flock ret : $ret\n"; if( $ret ) { print "GOT LOCK\n"; $got_lock = 1; last GETLOCK; } sleep(1); $lock_tries --; } do{ print 'Unable to lock known hosts file for updates', "\n"; close LOCK; exit; } unless($got_lock == 1); #open KNOWN_HOSTS_RD, "< $known_hosts"; open KNOWN_HOSTS, "+< $known_hosts" or die "Can't open data file: $!\n"; #my @host_data = ; my @host_data = ; #close KNOWN_HOSTS_RD; my $host_pattern = $host; $host_pattern =~ s/\./\\\./; my @new_data = grep(!/^$host_pattern/,@host_data); truncate KNOWN_HOSTS, 0; print KNOWN_HOSTS join("\n", @new_data); ##This releases the lock. close(KNOWN_HOSTS); close LOCK;