Text File Busy message

[agabriel at coe.neu.edu (Anthony J. Gabrielson)]

Hello,
	I can't remeber the exact command at this moment but if your at a
console try using the lsof command and grep for your file to see if the
system is using it.

Hope thats a help,
Anthony

On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Phil Buckley wrote:

> 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?
> > 
> > *******************************
> > |       Derek D. Martin       |
> > |  UNIX System Administrator  |
> > |   derek.martin at arris-i.com  |
> > *******************************
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