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Old 03-23-2006
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try lsof, I like it much more...
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Old 03-11-2009
Java fsuer day to day usage

Hello ,

here under an interessant use of fuser with -u optioon ( see more on man Smilie)
its display the PID + USER of the process accessing the file :

fuser -u messages
messages: 230o(root)
ps -edf|grep 230|grep -v grep
root 230 1 0 Jan 15 ? 0:02 /usr/sbin/syslogd
 
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