From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 14 15:55:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26662 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:55:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA26586 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:54:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA23784; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:54:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:54:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Johann Visagie cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Text file busy"? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Johann Visagie wrote: > > I wonder if anyone can enlighten me as to why this would happen: > > I tried to execute a perl script I had been working on for a while, and the > only response I got from the shell was: > > bash: Text file busy > > Copied the script to a new name, and tried to execute that - worked fine. > Removed the original script and copied the new one back to the original name > - worked fine again. > > But what happened in the first place? Probably something basic that I'm not > aware of... The script is still running. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message