rm busy file

[Cody Godines]

Hi,
I have deleted all but one executable in a software's directory that I wanted to delete.

After this:
chmod 000 abaqus_elmd

I do:
rm -f abaqus_elmd

And get back:
abaqus_elmd: 0 mode ? (y/n) y
rm: abaqus_elmd not removed. Text file busy

I don't know if you are going to mention its use, but I do not have the stat() function or script in any of my bins. The only reason I did a chmod was because I read somewhere that it might help. Also, I have already tried:
rm -Rf directoryname

Thanks,
-Cody

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell · Accepted solution]

HI Cody

Try fuser -u to see who is using it.

fuser -k will kill them
then a rm should work.

HTH

Paula

[Martin Johnson]

do a /fuser on the file to see if some process has a channel open to it.

Marty

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi:

The 'text' term is a little misleading here in that it actually refers to executable instructions (code). You need to first kill the process and then you will be able to remove the file.

Do this:

1) ps -ef | grep abaqus_elmd and note the PID of the process.
2) kill PID
if that fails try kill -11 PID; only as a last resort use kill -9
3) rm abaqus_elmd

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Cody,

Use the fuser command
fuser -ku /path/to/command_name
This will list who was using it & kill the process.
Should be able to remove then.

HTH,
Jeff

[Pete Randall]

Cody,

If it can't be removed at present, you can rename it and then go back later to do the delete.

HTH,
Pete

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Cody


There is a sure shot way to do it

ls -li filename

you will get a inode no for that file

do a clri

do a man clri for this ,
then do a fsck on the filesystem , it will ask to remove the file while cleaing the fielsystem.

Manoj Srivastava