Unable to delete an open file

vikasrout · March 17, 2009, 5:28am

I am working on a unix server.
I killed all the processes with my id on the machine.
After that I tried to delete a file, I got an error:-
file not removed.Text File busy.

Deletion of directory prompted:-
Directory not empty.

Can anyone help me regarding this...???

Thanks,
Vikas

Sapfeer · March 17, 2009, 5:51am

What is your system?..

vikasrout · March 17, 2009, 5:53am

I am working on HP-UX machine

Sapfeer · March 17, 2009, 6:05am

You should try fuser(1M) command

vikasrout · March 17, 2009, 11:29pm

Is there some other solution...???

davf · March 18, 2009, 10:22pm

vikasrout,

If you use fuser with the -u option it will tell you the id of the process locking the file, and the user who owns the process -

fuser -u filename

Regards,
davf

wabard · March 18, 2009, 10:27pm

Note that if the file is being accessed via nfs or smb from another machine, that the fuser command may not show the user, as it looks for processes on the local machine that have the file handle open.

vikasrout · March 18, 2009, 10:58pm

The fuser option doesn't work on my HP-UX box, so could you kindly suggest me something else.

Thanks,
Vikas

Sapfeer · March 19, 2009, 5:03am

What do you mean "doesn't working"?.. Please, provide the output of the command

fuser -fu <yourfile>

vbe · March 19, 2009, 5:51am

Are you root when executing fuser?

vikasrout · March 19, 2009, 6:00am

No I was not 'root' while using this command.

But I found out the reason the command works fine.

Will let you know if I face any other issues.

Thanks a lot...!!!

Vikas

vikasrout · March 25, 2009, 3:26am

I tried using:-

fuser -u file_name

It gave me the parent process which was using the file.

It worked.

Thanks a lot for your help.