need help - processes and directories

Jeff Macdonald jeff.macdonald at virtualbuilder.com
Tue Aug 12 20:00:46 EDT 2003


On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 17:47, ken at flyingtoasters.net wrote:
> Assuming you have permissions to see the files (try it as root to be
> sure), lsof should show you most everything.  lsof -can- sometimes not
> work properly with, say, stale NFS handles, but that's when things start
> getting weird.

Well, is a stale NFS handle a .nfs{blah} file? From what I understood,
those can indicate that a file was deleted and there was another process
in the directory so NFS creates the .nfs{blah} entry. That's the
situation I have and I'm trying to find what that process is.

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Jeff Macdonald <jeff.macdonald at virtualbuilder.com>
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