From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 18 7:31:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gdmckee.local (pc-62-30-209-11-so.blueyonder.co.uk [62.30.209.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C16E37B632 for ; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 07:31:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@gdmckee.com) Received: from [192.168.0.5] (helo=p300) by gdmckee.local with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14psyu-000MRZ-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:30:56 +0100 Message-ID: <005e01c0c814$294283e0$0500a8c0@gdmckee.local> From: "G D McKee" To: "Questions FreeBSD" Subject: !!!Text file busy!!! Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:30:48 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Hoe can I get around this error. If I leave the file long enough I can run it. Seems odd. It is not open by any other process. kursk#~/bin> ./gdm.pl bash: ./gdm.pl: Text file busy kursk#~/bin> Gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message