need help - processes and directories

[Jeff Macdonald]

On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 17:47, ken at flyingtoasters.net wrote:
> But lsof -does- do it.  For example:
> 
> greenroom:/home/ken/Maildir/cur# pwd
> /home/ken/Maildir/cur
> greenroom:/home/ken/Maildir/cur# lsof | grep "/home/ken/Maildir/cur"
> 
> lsof      12775   root  [...] /home/ken/Maildir/cur
> grep      12776   root  [...] /home/ken/Maildir/cur
> lsof      12777   root  [...] /home/ken/Maildir/cur
> 
> Assuming you have permissions to see the files (try it as root to be
> sure)

Ah, even though I do have permissions as a normal user for the files, I
wasn't able to see what I was looking for till I had root access...

Thanks all.