[Info-vax] Problem deleting files locked by another user

[IanMiller]

On May 16, 8:32 pm, "Mikey" <mminor... at earthlink.net> wrote:
> We have a lot of files that need to be deleted, but when trying to delete them we get the following message:
>
> %DELETE-W-FILNOTDEL, error deleting SYS$SYSDEVICE:[DSMMGR.HL7_ORDERS.ARCHIVE]20110331234852_12899_1134999076_1.ARC;1-RMS-E-FLK, file currently locked by another user
> I have try set file/unlock but it doesn't seem to unlock them. I suspect that there is an old process hanging around that has the files locked. How do I determine what process has a file locked? If there is no process, how else can the files be unlocked?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Mike

$ pipe  show device/files/nosys sys$sysdevice: | sear sys$input:
"20110331234852_12899_1134999076_1.ARC"

should find the culprit process