Removing a "busy" text file?
Mike Klinke
lsomike at futzin.com
Sun Jan 30 20:11:13 UTC 2005
On Sunday 30 January 2005 13:59, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> How could the file be busy? I'm not looking at it in any other
> program. I've tried to delete it in several ways, even su'ing to
> root to do so.
>
> Any thoughts? What could be causing this, and how can I fix it?
As root, does "lsof <filename>" show any processes associated with
the file?
Regards, Mike Klinke
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