From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 18:58: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from drone4.qsi.net.nz (drone4-svc-skyt.qsi.net.nz [202.89.128.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A846037B41B for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 18:57:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 57068 invoked by uid 0); 26 Jan 2002 02:58:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chen.org.nz) ([210.54.19.51]) (envelope-sender ) by 0 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 26 Jan 2002 02:58:13 -0000 Received: (from jonc@localhost) by chen.org.nz (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0Q2vtY25193; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 15:57:55 +1300 (NZDT) (envelope-from jonc) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 15:57:55 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Alex Ranaldi Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: unlinking open files Message-ID: <20020126155755.A25091@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <0GQI0028YVW8VR@osfmail.rit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <0GQI0028YVW8VR@osfmail.rit.edu>; from axr7993@rit.edu on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:52:58PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 08:52:58PM -0500, Alex Ranaldi wrote: > Hello all, > > Even killing the process > using the file (in this case, Apache) will not help. Only a reboot seems to > solve the problem. Nope. Once you kill the last process holding the file open, the resource is reclaimed by the O/S. You don't have to reboot - we're not Windows. -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beer. Now there's a temporary solution." - Homer Simpson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message