Originally posted by: cpguru

I am wondering if someone can help me with syntax of a command.

What im trying to do:

-I am trying to get a listing of what user has what file open right before a kill script is run.  The kill script we have works fine, just want a list >to a file of what user has what open for files.

I am assuming I want to use a variant of the who command, maybe with the -o option, but after playing around with it for a bit, I cant seem to get a list of open files.

Can someone here please help?

Knowledge level here is beginner.

Thanks!

Originally posted by: talex

Try lsof

Originally posted by: dukessd

I think lsof is in the AIX expansion pack but you'll probably have fuser installed by default so that's worth a try.

HTH.

Originally posted by: cpguru

Thanks Talex & Dukessd.  I do not have the expansion pack apperantly as I do not have lsof, although that looks like exactly what I am looking for.

In reviewing the man page for fuser, I am not sure this is going to give me exactly what I want.  The ps -ef command actually gets me closer to a list of who is in what, however it does not tell me what file the user is in (has open?).

Thanks for the help though.  I appreciate the responses!

Originally posted by: The_Doctor

if it's lsof you want..... I'd suggest you look into this site ->  http://www.bullfreeware.com/

search on lsof ...... refine the results to AIX 5.2 ...... download the binary & install (I assume you have no capability to compile the source).

Originally posted by: cpguru

Thank you very much for the link Doc.  I am downloading and installing now.

Thanks all.

Originally posted by: cpguru

Doc,

lsof installed successfully and am learning now.  Thanks again for directing me to the site to download.