[ale] Fuser questions

[James Sumners]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Brian Pitts <brian at polibyte.com> wrote:
> On 01/04/2011 02:56 PM, James Sumners wrote:
>> I think that might be your distributions version of fuser. The one
>> packaged with Debian Lenny isn't showing this behavior for me[1].
>>
>> [1] -- http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1038672/lsof-fuser.png
>
> Thanks for looking into this with me. After testing on some more distros
> I agree that the behavior has changed in newer fuser version. The
> confusion that prompted my email was the behavior on RHEL4 (ugh).
>

I feel your pain. I administer six RHEL 4 servers. Of course, fuser
isn't installed by default (found this out a couple days ago when I
needed it). And, shock of all shocks, neither is lsof. Since
installing either would have been too much trouble I just gave up and
did whatever it was a different way.

I _hate_ Red Hat.


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