Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:54:30 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Johann Visagie <wjv@cityip.co.za> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Text file busy"? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980314155421.23647W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <E0yDxaK-0003KQ-00@ns.cityip.co.za>
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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
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