Text File Busy message

[phil at 1918.com (Phil Buckley)]

This is just an intern learning on a test script for now, but I think I
found the answer about 15 minutes ago at deja.com. Someone had suggested
putting "share modes = no" in my smb.conf file, and it started
working...

Phil

Derek Martin wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Phil Buckley wrote:
> 
> > Okay guys, here's a strange one...
> >
> > There is a perl script sitting on the RH6 server. The script is chmod'd
> > as 775. When the script is opened by a windows user to edit it in WinVi
> > the webserver serves up a 500 error. If I attempt to run the script from
> > the command line, I get the message that the "text file is busy". If the
> >
> > Any ideas what might be causing this strange behavior???
> 
> Maybe WinVi is broken?
> 
> I would suggest as a workaround, have the user edit a copy of the file,
> then put the updated script in place when it is done.
> 
> As an aside, I consider it dangerous to edit a file that is in production.
> MUCH safer to edit a copy...  Are you using any revision control at all?
> 
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> |  UNIX System Administrator  |
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