Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 11:46:08 +0700 From: Roger Merritt <mcrogerm@stjohn.ac.th> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> Subject: Re: Unable to delete file Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20011002114608.007afb50@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <20011002042348.G39535-100000@big> References: <3.0.6.32.20011002103107.007ae580@stjohn.stjohn.ac.th>
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At 04:30 AM 10/2/01 +0000, you wrote: >On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Roger Merritt wrote: > >> I have a strange problem. I have a small LAN using Samba. I have a public >> share on my FreeBSD server, at /home/public, that I use for documents that >> must be made available to everybody. A couple of days ago I posted an >> Excell worksheet for the teachers to use in submitting their end-of-term >> grades. Today I tried to modify it and got the message "being modified by >> Roger Merritt: would you like to open as Read Only?" The problem is I'm not >> modifying it. So I tried to delete it; no soap. >I have only seen this happening, when you try to delete a >file, while it is still opened by Excel. >Did you try to remove it, while somebody was working on it >(perhaps even yo yourself)? > >Uli. >> Nope, I looked at everybody's machine and no one was running Excel. I agree, it's acting *as if* somebody has it open, but 'fstat -f' doesn't show it as being open by any process. I tried shutting down Samba and deleting it but the same results. I'm almost ready to try rebooting (just kidding... I think). -- Roger To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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