Removing a "busy" text file?

[Richard S. Crawford]

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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