LOCKNAME(8)

💖 LOCKNAME(8) — the "make me a lock filename" girlie 💖

okay so real talk, bestie: this is lockname, and she lives in section 8 of the System Manager's Manual (yes, the big scary sysadmin section, but she's a tiny little helper, don't worry 🫶). She's a little Debian-only legend who makes UUCP lock filenames and minds her own business. Let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

lockname — generate a UUCP lock filename

no cap, that's literally the whole job. she makes a filename. she's iconic for it 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

/usr/sbin/lockname

that's it. no flags, no arguments, no drama. she takes zero inputs and she's not sorry about it ✨ literally the lowest-maintenance binary in the whole /usr/sbin friend group.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, bestie 🍓 — lockname is invoked by faxaddmodem and probemodem to generate a UUCP lock filename according to SVR4 conventions. That's the whole vibe. She doesn't get run by you directly (well, she can be, but her main character energy comes from being called by those two 📞).

she's a behind-the-scenes girlie — the friend who shows up, does the thing, and dips. the supporting cast member who lowkey carries the whole episode. 🙈

🌈 Also a fun little lore drop: this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but it may be used by others, she's not gatekeeping), and the reason it exists at all is because the original program does not have a manual page. So she's a homemade bestie. A community-crafted document. We stan. 💜

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read her friends, they're all in the group chat too:

• hylafax(5)
• faxaddmodem(8)
• probemodem(8)

🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

This manual page was written by Dermot Bradley <bradley@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. thank you Dermot for the documentation service, fr fr 🙏✨

and that's the page, bestie!! 💖 this has been LOCKNAME(8) from the System Manager's Manual, Debian GNU/Linux edition — short, sweet, and serving exactly zero extra features. periodt. 🎀🦋🌸