From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 20 20:49:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA18935 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 May 1996 20:49:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mistery.mcafee.com (jimd@mistery.mcafee.com [192.187.128.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA18929 for ; Mon, 20 May 1996 20:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jimd@localhost) by mistery.mcafee.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id VAA07003; Mon, 20 May 1996 21:01:49 -0700 From: Jim Dennis Message-Id: <199605210401.VAA07003@mistery.mcafee.com> Subject: Re: Who is using a file? To: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 21:01:49 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "David Kelly" at May 20, 96 09:28:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. > David, lsof ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof Jim Dennis, System Administrator, McAfee Associates