[ILUG] lsof for solaris / sunOS?

[Kevin Gannon]

At 11:22 AM 5/3/01 +0000, Conor Daly wrote:
>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.

fuser which comes with Solaris might also do the trick for you.

Regards,
Kevin

>Thanks,
>
>Conor.
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