Hello to you all,
First my special thanks to Steve Copeland, Oyanarte Portilho and Dejan
Muhamedagic who guided my out this problem !!
My question was:
* When I want to unlock on of my accounts with the
dxaccounts-Application, I receive the following message:
"The password and group file are currently locked by another
user. Please try again later"
* When I try to make the changes with the "vipw-command", I receive
this message:
"password file busy"
* I already made a quick search through the mailing list archives,
where I've found slightly similar problems and answers but they
don't seem to help me out:
-I don't have a "/etc/.AM_is_running" file
-I don't have "yp" installed
-I've already installed a patch (OSF410DX-400010, e.g patch
240.00)
* But when I rebooted my system, I've noticed the following message
on the console:
Mounting Memory Filesystem
rw-r--r-- root system "a date in July" /etc/passwd
The answer:
In fact one has to remove a file called /etc/ptmp. But in my case I
didn't have that file, only a DIRECTORIE ???? called /etc/ptmp. Within
it I've found a file called group.new.
I deleted that one and all is working fine now.
After I rebooted my system to check the problem about the MFS, I noticed
it seemed to be disappeared.
Once again thanks for helping me out
Chris
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Chris De Blende
Royal Defense College
UNIX SysAdmin
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Received on Fri Sep 11 1998 - 09:06:34 NZST