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- From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver)
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- Subject: Re: how to find out files open and who's got them open
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 21:53:07 GMT
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- In article <BzzLz7.As4@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> klenfest@zeus.UWaterloo.ca (Kurt Lenfesty) writes:
- >
- >Is there any way of finding out what files are open
- >and what programs are accessing those files. I have
- >an optical disk and sometimes it won't eject because there are
- >files open (the disk is busy). When I worked with vms systems
- >this facility was part of the operating system. What is keeping
- >track of file access and how do I find out? Thank you very much.
- >
- >klenfest@zeus.UWaterloo.ca
- >p.s. please post before Dec. 31 as I'm disappearing to Toronto.
-
- We use a program called, 'lsof', list of open files. It gives us a list
- of the other open files on the machine. I suspect using archie might
- find it for you, or it might be at nova.cc.purdue.edu in the next
- archives.
-
- I will ask my co-systemadmin for where he got it if you can't find it.
-
- -Erik
- eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu
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