Removing a "busy" text file?

[Mike Klinke]

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