Subj : REX is waiting for config files to be unlocked
To : Bill Gordon
From : Roy Witt
Date : Thu Dec 20 2012 05:20 pm
01 Jan 70 00:00, Joe Delahaye wrote to Bill Gordon:
JD> Re: REX is waiting for config files to be unlocked
JD> By: Bill Gordon to Joe Delahaye on Thu Dec 20 2012 14:05:16
>> Yeah, but I still got that cycle and the message... It may be working,
>> but what's causing the cycle and the message?
JD> If you exit from the rex config utility the wrong way, it will leave
JD> a busy semaphore, thus preventing Rex from starting up, or
JD> continuing. Remove that semaphone, and all will work once more. I
JD> have my Rex startup batch file check for that and if it exists, it
JD> will remove it.
As simple as a batch file search for *.0, as in rexbusy.0 ... then 'if
exist rexbusy.0 del rexbusy.0' and then loop back to restart Irex...
The rexbusy.0 semaphore should be in your 'flags' or 'semaphore' directory
as configed in Rexcfg.exe ...
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