lockname(8)

lockname8

Generate a uucp lock filename

Usage

/usr/sbin/lockname

Overview

lockname is invoked by faxaddmodem and probemodem to generate a UUCP lock filename according to SVR4 conventions.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page.

Releases

Unchanged in 11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

  1. 3.1–13

Author

This manual page was written by Dermot Bradley <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

From hylafax-server 3:6.0.7-11.1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.