umount question

[Marty Landman]

At 05:06 PM 3/30/2005, Kenneth Goodwin wrote:


>19774 and 19924 are the process id's of the programs holding
>your cdrom.
>
>ps -ef | grep 19774
>ps  -ef | grep 19924 should quickly
>show you what they are.
>
>kill -9 19774
>kill -9 19924
>
>should eradicate the problem and let you unmount the drive.

Thanks, of course that worked. My cd is free!

It just amazes me how I, a programmer who thinks the sysadmin is "that guy 
over there" can successfully set up a working local staging environment and 
remain so totally ignorant. :)

Marty


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