command lsof

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:17:18PM -0500, Charles Malespin wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to figure out why my CD rom drive wont open when I use
> the eject command.  It tells me that the device is busy and that it is
> being used, but to my knowledge it isnt.  So I tried ' lsof ' to list
> what was going on in the /media/cdrecorder drive but it tells me that
> lsof command not found.  I am using FC3, does this command not exist
> for my OS?  I am a newbie so I really dont know what to do or if this
> is a stupid question... Any help or ideas?  Thanks,
> Charles
> 
You can use fuser command to do the same thing. But lsof is part of
FC3 on CD1.
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