[ILUG] lsof for solaris / sunOS?

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 12:24:09PM +0100 or thereabouts, Sean McGrath - Sun Microsystems Ireland wrote:
> 
>  in solaris 8 theres 'fuser'.   The solaris equiv of lsof...
> 
> Conor Daly stated:
> < 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.

AH!  The very thing!  Now, if somebody had bothered to build the manpage
database on the box, I might have found that!

Thanks Sean.

Conor
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