Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 20:52:58 -0500 From: Alex Ranaldi <axr7993@rit.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: unlinking open files Message-ID: <0GQI0028YVW8VR@osfmail.rit.edu>
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Hello all, From what I understand, if a file is open and deleted by the user (ie. an apache log) problems will arise. For example, du and df will not display the same value, as the kernel cannot free an open file. Even killing the process using the file (in this case, Apache) will not help. Only a reboot seems to solve the problem. I'm new to FreeBSD & Unix in general, but I was wondering why the user is not warned before deleting a file that is in use. This seems like a rather trivial thing to do, although I'm probably wrong. Any insight into this would be appreciated. Thanks, Alex Ranaldi axr7993@rit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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