As long as everybody is learning about lsof this week, you might also want to check out a similar utility, fuser, which lists which processes are using a partic

As long as everybody is learning about lsof this week, you might also want to check out a similar utility, fuser, which lists which processes are using a particular file. http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/fuser1.html http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/fuser1.html It's really handy for some situations. For instance, if a process can't grab some port, you can use fuser to quickly determine which process grabbed it first.