[ILUG] lsof for solaris / sunOS?

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:34:09AM +0100 or thereabouts, Dave Neary wrote:
> Conor Daly wrote:
> > 
> > Running two boxes, one SunOS 5.5 the other SunOS 5.7  Is there an equivalent
> > of lsof for these boxes?  I'm trying to do a C-shell script to do a waitfor
> > on a file and I can do it for a file that shows on a command-line using ps
> > but I really need lsof instead.
> 
> How about using lsof? It's available for Solaris
> http://www.sunfreeware.com/ I think, and if not the source
> (ftp://vic.cc.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/lsof/) should build on Solaris.
> 
> If solaris's man supports -k you could try man -k open | grep files -
> also it'll be in section 8 of the man pages, if that's a help. And it'll
> likely be one of the executables in /usr/sbin :)

Did that.  Have to wait fo the sysadmin to build it though.

Lars Hecking mentioned the proc tools collection which might be useful.  
Once I've identified a process using a file, I can use pwait on the pid to
catch the exit.

Thanks,

Conor.
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