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Re: Redhat 4 - locked passwd
On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Oori Hasson wrote:
> I installed a redhat 4
> (I know.. I know.. upgrade emminent)
> and have a question regarding where the password
> lock file is. mans, /var/spool etc' brought
> up nothing.
> I want to add a user using adduser, and I get
> "/etc/passwd is locked. Try again later."
> I don't see any other process accesing it.
> Oori.
>
Just look at adduser code. It creats
some "lock file" which it does not remove
after it finished.
You can just remove this file manually or
I hope there is update to adduser at closest
RH ftp site.
I hate RH because of those litlle annoying bugs ;-{)
Alexander Indenbaum
baum@actcom.co.il
FreeBSD - Unix for PCs
http://www.freebsd.org/
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