On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Jan Grant wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2003-07-09T08:36:50Z, "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Install sysutils/lsof and use it to find what program has a deleted file > > > open on /var; kill that program, and the space will be reclaimed. > > I see that advice a lot. Is lsof inherently superior to `fstat' in the base > > system?
I think it's just Linux/SysV folks that are used to lsof. > You don't _need_ lsof, it just ties things neatly together for you. If > you don't have lsof (for whatever reason), you can scan down /var > looking for "missing" open inodes - eg, the script at > http://ioctl.org/unix/scripts/openfiles Couldn't you also just do something like, `find /var|xargs lsof` That seems to yield similar output as lsof for me... Granted, some columns are swapped around. -mrh -- From: "Spam Catcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do NOT send email to the address listed above or you will be added to a blacklist! _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"