Happy hangover Monday everyone! To soothe those post-big-game blues, here's this week's man page -- lsof, the LiSt Open Files tool. If you're trying to figure out why a removable drive won't unmount ...

通过查看打开的文件，了解更多关于系统的信息。了解应用程序打开了哪些文件或者哪个应用程序打开了特定的文件，作为系统管理员，这将使得您能够作出更好的决策。例如，您不应该卸载具有打开文件的文件系统。使用 lsof，您可以检查打开的文件，并根据 ...

One thing I really like about Windows server compared to Mac OS X Server is the ability to quickly see what files are currently open, and who has them open.<BR><BR>I assume the only thing I can do on ...

One command revealed a side of my system I never knew existed.

Click for a PDF containing this and four other essential Linux articles. Both of the aliases below will list whatever files are open on your behalf when you are logged in. I suspect that few sysadmins ...

You have probably used lsof from time to time, probably when tracking down some sort of problem. But maybe you haven’t tried all of its permutations or looked at it just to get a deeper understanding ...

Today I was working on a Linux server without lsof. I'd like to know what app is using a certain file. How do I do that? I'm using Red Hat 3.4.6-3 (Linux version 2.6.9-55.ELsmp).