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1. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
Hi,
Not sure whether there is a fuser alternative or any better way to check for file in use or not.
I am wanting to check whether files are in use or not before removing them. Using fuser, the awk seems to be giving me 'weird' output not to mention that it is giving me 2 lines instead of... (0 Replies)
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2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Ill try to make this brief:
I am trying to get the script below to run another script defined as BATNAM.
The script runs fine, does what i designed it to do, however...
I would like it to mailx the NEW $pid that was restarted.
This script is supposed to go in crontab as root, and run by... (8 Replies)
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3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
if filename.txt is in used, exit, else continue.
i tried to use fuser -c filename.txt, but returned bunch out PIDs eventhough filename.txt is not in used.
any idea ? (10 Replies)
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4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hello,
I'm trying to select, or well put the PID that is given by fuser to a var.. It has a wierd format and I somehow can't get it working, any awk/sed experts about?
PID=`fuser $file | awk/sed....?`
if ; then
kill $PID
fi
Greetings and thanks for all your awesome help in advance! (4 Replies)
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5. Solaris
Greetings,
I need help understanding why FUSER will not bring back PSID's on mounted filesystems. Is this a common error?
Thanks in advance for your feedback. (11 Replies)
Discussion started by: Harleyrci
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6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Anyone ever use fuser,
i tried this command fuser /database.bk
but it only returns datbase.bk:
I read some of the forums online, one of them said when he used fuser, it broke down the box, i really don't want that happen.
I thought fuser is to see who is accessing that file, right?
any... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: adrianlearnpro
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7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
Hi,
I need to get the pid of a process and have to store the pid in a variable and i want to use this value(pid) of the variable for some process. Please can anyone tell me how to get the pid of a process and store it in a variable. please help me on this.
Thanks in advance,
Amudha (7 Replies)
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8. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
1. If I use an software application(which connects to the database in the server) in my local pc, how many PID should be registered? Would there be PID for the session and another PID for socket connection?
2. I noticed (through netstat) that when I logged in using the my software application,... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: pcx26
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9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
fuser is used to check whether a file is in use by a process or not.
I was putting some information in a file via a background process and was doing a cat to see the contents.
It gave me the pid of background process followed by stop.
Understood only half, stopped because it was writing on it... (11 Replies)
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10. Programming
question: for the below program
i just printed the value for pid, child pid and parent pid
why does it give me 6 values? i assume ppid is 28086
but can't figure out why there are 5 values printed instead of just two!
can someone comment on that!
#include<stdio.h>
#define DIM 8
int... (3 Replies)
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