06-15-2009
A process is a running program.
In windows, you indeed can't delete a file being accessed, which is a major design issue in my opinion. This is one of the reasons why you need to reboot windows that much after administrative actions with which Unix would have stayed up.
Under Unix, you can delete a file being accessed. This file disappears from the directory so its content become unreachable. However, the programs that have it open at the deletion time can still read and write data to it until they die and the space is actually freed.
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delete-authdb
asadmin-delete-authdb(1AS) User Commands asadmin-delete-authdb(1AS)
NAME
delete-authdb - removes the authorized database
SYNOPSIS
delete-authdb --user admin_user[--password admin_password][--host localhost] [--port 4848][--passwordfile filename][--secure|-s][--instance
instance_name] --virtualserver virtualserver_ID authdb_ID
Removes the authorized database associated with the named server instance.
OPTIONS
--user administrative user associated for the instance.
--password administrative password corresponding to the administrative user.
--host host name of the machine hosting the administrative instance.
--port administrative port number associated with the administrative host.
--passwordfile file containing passwords appropriate for the command (e.g., administrative instance).
--secure if true, uses SSL/TLS to communicate with the administrative instance.
--instance name of the instance.
--virtualserver virtual server ID. It can also be referred to as the variable $id in an obj.conf file. A virtual server ID cannot
begin with a number.
OPERANDS
authdb_id user database name in the virtual server's ACL file.
Example 1: Using delete-authdb
asadmin> delete-authdb --user admin --password adminadmin --host fuyako --port 7070 --instance server1 --virtualserver server1 sampleAuth
Deleted AuthDB with id = sampleAuth
Where: sampleAuth is the authdb deleted.
EXIT STATUS
0 command executed successfully
1 error in executing the command
asadmin-create-authdb(1AS), asadmin-list-authdbs(1AS)
J2EE 1.4 SDK March 2004 asadmin-delete-authdb(1AS)