How To Install withlock on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install withlock on Fedora 34.
What is withlock
withlock is a locking wrapper script to make sure that some program isn’t run more than once. It is ideal to prevent periodic jobs spawned by cron from stacking up. The locks created are valid only while the wrapper is running, and thus will never require additional cleanup, even after a reboot. This makes the wrapper safe and easy to use, and much better than implementing half-hearted locking within scripts.
We can use yum or dnf to install withlock on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install withlock.
Install withlock on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install withlock using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install withlock
Install withlock on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install withlock using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install withlock
How To Uninstall withlock on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the withlock package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove withlock
withlock Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/withlock
/usr/share/doc/withlock
/usr/share/doc/withlock/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/withlock
/usr/share/licenses/withlock/LICENSE-2.0.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/withlock.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install withlock on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.