On 4/2/2013 11:54 AM, Abhishek Koneru wrote: Some comments: 1. This mechanism locks the entire system, so only one pkispawn/pkidestroy can run at any time. Is this the intended behavior? Or should we lock a particular instance only? 2. If another script is already running, the current script will block until the other script is done. Is this the intended behavior? Or should it fail immediately? Or should it wait but show a message saying another script is running? 3. Right now the lock file is called /tmp/pkioperationlock.lck. It might be better to move it into /var/run/pki/pki-deployment.lock or something like that. -- Endi S. Dewata