Many thanks to all who replied: Jim Harm, Ken Krueger, Matt Moore, Tom
Webster, Martin Rxnde and Declan Lennon.
The lockfile is called /etc/.AM_is_running, and deleting it cured my
problem.
Graham
My original question:
> I had dxaccounts running on a remote machine; somehow the process got
> killed due to a network glitch, and I can no longer run it:
>
> # dxaccounts
> The password and group files are currently locked by another user.
> Please try again later.
>
> dxaccounts is certainly not running. I know it makes a lockfile
> somewhere which I probably have to remove, but I don't remember where,
> and it's not in the man page. Does anyone here know, please?
Received on Wed Jan 07 1998 - 20:52:42 NZDT