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Old 11-06-2006
Which Process is writing this Log file!!

Hello ,

Well I have some /tmp files which are growing very quickly..Can anyone suggest me a way to find which process is logging into this file Smilie ?

Thanks very much in Advance!!

Mohammed
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Old 11-06-2006
man fuser should help you. See man lsof as well.
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Old 11-06-2006
Thanks very much Vino..fuser gives quite a information about the process using a file..Mine is not a linux machine , so cant use lsof I guess.
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