On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 23:25:49 +0900, peter.cutting / tetrapak.com
<peter.cutting / tetrapak.com> wrote:
> yes the switching off may have helped (will try logging off next time
> it happens). moving on
> 
> what process would that be. I would have thought that the only active
> process would be the MySQL service. And of course any editors and or
> command prompts I have open in the application directory. As far as I
> can Ruby and Rails are not continually running processes.
> 

Your webserver should also be running (which could also have the files
open, hence the permissions error).