Path: utzoo!telly!attcan!uunet!bcstec!randall
From: randall@bcstec.UUCP (Michael Randall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Unlocking locked file?
Summary: Use "ulkob -f filename".
Message-ID: <498@bcstec.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 90 21:07:51 GMT
References: <2852@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle
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In article <2852@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, jlhaferman@l_eld09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman) writes:
> A friend terminated a process in a not-so-standard way
> (I'm not sure what he did), but a file being used by the
> process is now locked.
> (It happens to be a text file, and any attempt to
> get at it results in 'text file busy')
> 
> I've run into this problem before, and can always delete
> the file using 'rm -f <file>' (under /bin/csh).
> Also, I can rename the file, but it still remains locked.

You should be able to unlock it with "ulkob -f filename" from a
process on the node which the file resides. Send corrections to
me via E-mail, send flames to "The Bit Bucket".
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