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Old 06-01-2010
Find process through file opened
Hello all,

I have a file that is growing and growing by the action of any process.
How can I find what process is?

Thank you
# 2  
Old 06-01-2010
you can use "lsof"

Code:
lsof | grep "/usr/bin/gnome-session"

output should look like:

Code:
COMMAND     PID      USER   FD      TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF       NODE NAME
gnome-ses 25425    user  txt       REG                8,5   240088      91979 /usr/bin/gnome-session

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Old 06-01-2010
try fuser -u filename --there you see process who uses that file
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