file locked by another user

Dagk · 09-14-2005, 06:50 AM

Hi,

I need to edit our virtual table file. This file has been checked out by my colleague who has gone away on vacation leaving it checked out! When I try to check it out (co) it says that it is still locked by this user. I am able to login as su. How do I release the lock on this file so that it is not still locked by this user who is away? Thanks.

blindcoder · 09-14-2005, 06:54 AM

that depends on how the lock is done. If it is done by "vim", then an "fuser -k .<filename>.swp" and "rm .<filename>.swp" should help, but this will kill all unsaved changes that other user has made.

Dagk · 09-14-2005, 06:59 AM

Normally when we edit files we:

co (check out)

vi (edit)

ci (check in)

I will need to save any changes that the user has done. Before he went I'm sure he told me of an easy way to free a locked file whilst logged in as su......but I can't remember!

blindcoder · 09-14-2005, 07:02 AM

there is no easy way to remove a lock but the way it was intended to. All the others are ugly.

Of what kind are those co and ci commands? Subversion? CVS? Any other versioning system?

Dagk · 09-14-2005, 07:04 AM

I'm afraid I do not have much Linux experience yet so I cannot say!!

blindcoder · 09-14-2005, 07:12 AM

well, sorry, if it's not the vi that does the locking as explained above and you can't tell me about co and ci I can't help you

chrism01 · 09-14-2005, 09:08 PM

Could even be RCS, see man rcs, specifically rcs -u to unlock...