If you are going to suggest lock files please do it right using sysopen to aviod race conitions as shown at Re: CGI Question - run external script and then update page and below. Typically you would print the PID to the lockfile: 

use Fcntl qw(O_WRONLY O_CREAT O_EXCL);
my $lockfile = '/tmp/lock';
if (sysopen(FH, $lockfile, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL)) {
    # sysopen will only work if lockfile does not exist
    # do stuff
    close FH;
    unlink $lockfile or die "Can't unlink lockfile $lockfile $!";
}
else {
    die "$lockfile exists so another instance of the script is running
+!";
  exit;
}

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cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: Re: Determining if self is already running under WinNT/2000 by tachyon
in thread Determining if self is already running under WinNT/2000 by lrep

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