Click for a PDF with this and four other essential Linux articles. And, if you’ve ever heard anyone say that for Unix, everything is a file, you might not be too surprised to learn that lsof works ...

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 ...

Use the LiSt Open Files (LSOF) utility to track data flow related to ports, users, and applications. LiSt Open Files (LSOF) is a Linux utility that allows you to view current network connections and ...

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 ...

use the lsof command to find out what programs are using what files: # lsof /media/usbdisk/ COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME bash 6925 root cwd DIR 8,17 4096 1 /media/usbdisk/ xmms 6979 ...