# My continuing lock file issue **URL:** \ **Category:** Zeek\ **Created:** [May 31, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/my-continuing-lock-file-issue/2687 "2013-05-31T20:16:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Richards\_James\_L\_DOA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/87869e/32.png) [@Richards\_James\_L\_DOA](https://community.zeek.org/u/Richards_James_L_DOA)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/my-continuing-lock-file-issue/2687/1 "2013-05-31T20:16:59Z")
So, I have now reinstalled bro completely (from source, there is a dependency issue with libc with the binary install), wiped the nodes clean and rebuilt all directories, established the ssh connections for the bro user. When I go into broctl I still am getting the cannot get lock issue. I do notice that when I go into /usr/local/bro/spool, I get some files showing up being owned by root, and it doesn’t seem it should be. drwxr-xr-x 4 bro bro 4096 May 31 11:35 . drwxr-xr-x 9 bro bro 4096 May 31 11:33 … -rw-r–r-- 1 root root 82 May 31 11:35 broctl.dat drwxr-xr-x 2 bro bro 4096 May 31 11:33 scripts -rw-r–r-- 1 root root 445 May 31 11:35 stats.log drwxr-xr-x 2 bro bro 4096 May 31 11:33 tmp James Richards Office of Security Wisconsin Department of Administration 608.224.3880 ---
**Author:** ![robin](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/community.zeek.org/robin/32/599_2.png) [@robin](https://community.zeek.org/u/robin)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2013, 10:02pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/my-continuing-lock-file-issue/2687/2 "2013-05-31T22:02:17Z")
Just a guess: is "broctl cron" executed from the system crontab? Robin ---
**Author:** ![Richards\_James\_L\_DOA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/87869e/32.png) [@Richards\_James\_L\_DOA](https://community.zeek.org/u/Richards_James_L_DOA)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2013, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/my-continuing-lock-file-issue/2687/3 "2013-06-03T21:01:01Z")
It was, under var/spool/cron/crontabs. I got rid of the entries, and broctl now works flawlessly. But now my nodes won't start, I can see the 'install' command happily updating the nodes via ssh, but they won't start. So I started to chase it down via the scripts to run at startup (smtp, connections, software, etc.), so I copied the sites/local.bro from an older subdirectory (previous install) to my new install, but now manager is stopping with an error. No replies necessary, as I think I am almost there. Thanks all for your help, it is appreciated, and I have learned a bunch. James Richards Office of Security Wisconsin Department of Administration 608.224.3880 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/zeek/original/1X/f09d732bc2cc7c7cc7e35db67cf4e1d5233ce7a7.png) [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/my-continuing-lock-file-issue/2687/4 "2022-05-06T15:41:00Z")