Who's using my files?

Who's using my files?

[Paul Furness]

Good morning / afternoon / night (delete as appropriate for your
timezone)


I have a very basic problem which is pretty much the same under all the
versions of linux I use.

Occasionally, when I try and eject a CD, the system complains that it is
in use, even although I have definitely stopped using it and CD'd out to
somewhere else.


A while ago I sort of remember seeing mention somewhere of a prog that
tells you who is using what files in a given directory tree.


Does anyone else know about this? What is it called? Has it been here
all along and I just never saw it?

Paul.



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Re: Who's using my files?

[szonyi calin]

 --- Paul Furness <paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com> a
écrit : > Good morning / afternoon / night (delete as
> appropriate for your
> timezone)
> 

rm -f /etc/localtime ? :-)

> 
> I have a very basic problem which is pretty much the
> same under all the
> versions of linux I use.
> 
> Occasionally, when I try and eject a CD, the system
> complains that it is
> in use, even although I have definitely stopped
> using it and CD'd out to
> somewhere else.
> 

automount ? 

> 
> A while ago I sort of remember seeing mention
> somewhere of a prog that
> tells you who is using what files in a given
> directory tree.
> 

lsof 
ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/

> 
> Does anyone else know about this? What is it called?
> Has it been here
> all along and I just never saw it?
> 

it hasn't been in many linux distributions. Now it
 seems that many distributions have lsof because
it's an important security tool

> Paul.
> 
> 


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Re: Who's using my files?

[Robin Doer]

Am Freitag, 12. Juli 2002 12:49 schrieb Paul Furness:

> A while ago I sort of remember seeing mention somewhere of a prog that
> tells you who is using what files in a given directory tree.
>
>
> Does anyone else know about this? What is it called? Has it been here
> all along and I just never saw it?

'fuser' should tell you the pid of the process who is using your CDROM-drive. 
I think that's exactly that what you need?!

Robin
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Re: Who's using my files?

[Paul Furness]

Thanks, everyone.

The best tool in the end has turned out to be 'lsof' which does, indeed,
ship with many current distros. 

P.






On Fri, 2002-07-12 at 11:49, Paul Furness wrote:
> Good morning / afternoon / night (delete as appropriate for your
> timezone)
> 
> 
> I have a very basic problem which is pretty much the same under all the
> versions of linux I use.
> 
> Occasionally, when I try and eject a CD, the system complains that it is
> in use, even although I have definitely stopped using it and CD'd out to
> somewhere else.
> 
> 
> A while ago I sort of remember seeing mention somewhere of a prog that
> tells you who is using what files in a given directory tree.
> 
> 
> Does anyone else know about this? What is it called? Has it been here
> all along and I just never saw it?
> 
> Paul.
> 
> 
> 
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Paul Furness

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