Happy hangover Monday everyone! To soothe those post-big-game blues, here's this week's man page -- lsof, the LiSt Open Files tool. If you're trying to figure out why a removable drive won't unmount ...

Use the LiSt Open Files (LSOF) utility to track data flow related to ports, users, and applications. LiSt Open Files (LSOF) is a Linux utility that allows you to view current network connections and ...

Click for a PDF with this and four other essential Linux articles. And, if you’ve ever heard anyone say that for Unix, everything is a file, you might not be too surprised to learn that lsof works ...

You have probably used lsof from time to time, probably when tracking down some sort of problem. But maybe you haven’t tried all of its permutations or looked at it just to get a deeper understanding ...

How do I use lsof to get a list of currently open text files?<BR><BR>I have a few files open in emacs, run the following command in another term, and get the ...

Today I was working on a Linux server without lsof. I'd like to know what app is using a certain file. How do I do that? I'm using Red Hat 3.4.6-3 (Linux version 2.6.9-55.ELsmp).