On Wed, Nov 17, 1999 at 03:42:59AM +0100, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> > cp: cannot create regular file `/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd': Text file busy
> qmail-smtpd is running, so the system doesn't allow you to overwrite the
> file. Just move it to e.g. qmail-smtpd.todelete then copy.
> After some time the running qmail-smtpd(s) will finish accepting the email
> an no "old" copy of the file will be running and the system will let you
> delete the file (qmail-smtpd.todelete).
In fact, you can delete the file even while the program is executing,
since the inode won't actually be removed from disk until all references
to it (including executing processes) are dropped.
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Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/
