Tag Archives: nfs

COTD: fuser - identify processes using files or sockets

April 20, 2009 – 7:44 am

Today’s Command Of The Day is the “fuser” command.
Have you ever wanted to unmounted an NFS share, or local filesystem and couldn’t because it was in use?  The same applies to CD/DVD’s, PenDrives, etc.  Generally, you receive a message similar to the following:
# umount /dev/sdc1
umount: /media/disk: device is busy.
The fuser has many options.  The ones [...]

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Windows Services for UNIX

April 16, 2009 – 5:40 pm

This is not a Windows blog.  However, I wanted to mention a Microsoft product called Windows Services for UNIX.   This is a Windows Add-on that provides some UNIX interoperability.
It provides things like; Password Syncronization between Windows and UNIX, a Telnet Server, Remote Shell execution Services, a NFS Server, a NFS Client, and more.
I’ve only used [...]

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