command lsof

[David Curry]

Thomas Cameron wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 21:17 -0500, Charles Malespin wrote:
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>>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
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>It's /usr/sbin/lsof so regular users don't "see" it in their search
>path.  If you want to use commands which are typically only available to
>root, you can become root from a command prompt by issuing the command:
>
>su -
>
>Note the trailing hyphen.  This will allow you to become root
>temporarily until you exit the shell.
>
>Thomas
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Charles, some additional info that might be useful to readers.
1. Which desktop you are running - gnome, kde, xfce, etc.?
2. Have you used the drive before and removed a CD from it?