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From: ced@apollo.HP.COM (Carl Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Unlocking locked file?
Message-ID: <4d9c4894.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM>
Date: 25 Oct 90 15:09:00 GMT
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From article <2852@ns-mx.uiowa.edu>, by jlhaferman@l_eld09.icaen.uiowa.edu (Jeff Haferman):
> 
> 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')
> 
> He was running aegis under SR10.2 if it makes a difference.
> 

Jeff,

The utility you are looking for is /etc/ulkob. It exists for just the kind of 
problem you describe. 


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