Removing a "busy" text file?
Richard S. Crawford
rscrawford at mossroot.com
Sun Jan 30 20:50:22 UTC 2005
On Sunday 30 January 2005 12:44 pm, Gunnar Kramm flailed at a keyboard and
produced this:
> [snip]
>
> Try (as root)
> lsof | grep "Concerning Hobbits.mp3"
>
>
> That ought to tell you what PID has the file open
Thanks.
After bashing myself over the head and remembering that the file was actually
on another computer, I simply ssh'ed into that other computer and rm'ed the
file there. No problem.
I'll be sure to remember lsof, though. Thanks.
--
Slainte,
Richard S. Crawford (mailto: rscrawford at mossroot.com)
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