If you’re running Mac or Linux, you will already have this command installed. lsof tells you what a process is currently talking to. It will list the process’ network connections and which files it’s ...

Click for a PDF with this and four other essential Linux articles. And, if you’ve ever heard anyone say that for Unix, everything is a file, you might not be too surprised to learn that lsof works ...

Click for a PDF containing this and four other essential Linux articles. Both of the aliases below will list whatever files are open on your behalf when you are logged in. I suspect that few sysadmins ...

One command revealed a side of my system I never knew existed.

Happy hangover Monday everyone! To soothe those post-big-game blues, here's this week's man page -- lsof, the LiSt Open Files tool. If you're trying to figure out why a removable drive won't unmount ...

One thing I really like about Windows server compared to Mac OS X Server is the ability to quickly see what files are currently open, and who has them open.<BR><BR>I assume the only thing I can do on ...