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Date:      Tue, 21 May 1996 07:26:35 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net>
To:        David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        questions@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Who is using a file?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.93.960521072314.19401B-100000@dazed.nol.net>
In-Reply-To: <v03006601adc6d9daca60@[44.100.48.19]>

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On Mon, 20 May 1996, David Kelly wrote:

> Once Upon A Time I came across the BSD utility to determine who has a
> particular file open and now I've forgotten it. This is a real useful thing
> when one wants to umount a fs and learns its busy. I *think* the utility
> could list the open files on a filesystem and/or list the users who are
> using a single file.

I don't know of a particular utility designed for fbsd, but I've been using
lsof on most of the machines I have and it works terrifically. The home of
lsof is: ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/lsof


Brett




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