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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users same file being opened by two users at a time Post 302272858 by methyl on Thursday 1st of January 2009 10:25:31 AM
Old 01-01-2009
In addition to cjcox advice.

You could intercept the editor and script a flag file to show that the file is being edited and then stop edits if the flag file exists. The flag method used by unix command "vipw" to prevent two "vipw" users editing the password file at the same time.

Depending on how the file is being edited you may find unix command "fuser" useful. It is however no good for editor processes which don't open the file for write (e.g. vi).
 

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users-admin(1)							   User Commands						    users-admin(1)

NAME
users-admin - Configure local users and groups on the system. SYNOPSIS
users-admin [gnome-std-options] DESCRIPTION
users-admin enables the user to configure the local users and groups on the system. I also provides the ability to assign RBAC profiles to a user. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more informa- tion. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Running the main application. example% users-admin EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Application exited successfully >0 Application exited with failure FILES
The following files are used by this application: /usr/bin/users-admin Executable for users and groups configuration. /var/spool/setup-tool-backends/data/users Where user template configurations are stored. /var/spool/setup-tool-backends/backup/users Backup directory for files that are modified. /var/run/setup-tool-backends/debug/users Debug logs can be found under here. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWgnome-system-tools | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface stability |Uncommitted | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform. time-admin(1), shares-admin(1), services-admin(1), network-admin(1), gnome-std-options(5), useradd(1M), usermod(1M), groupadd(1M), group- mod(1M), passwd(4), shadow(4), group(4), attributes(5) NOTES
YP/NIS, NIS+ and LDAP users should be aware that it's possible to have conflict with users configured in here with the result that an error will occur. You should ensure that local user's home accounts are located on local filesystems - e.g. creating a new entry in /home when it's mounted with automount will not work and as such the user may not be created. Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006. SunOS 5.11 6 Nov 2006 users-admin(1)
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