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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