Thanks go out to:
Kim Roy
Joe Fletcher
Carl Gaines
Bryan Lavelle
Marco Luchini
Matt Goebel
Many suggestions to check for the file "/etc/.AM_is_running".
This file did exist and I removed it... This allowed usermod to run
correctly...
Thanks to everyones swift replies...
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| Phil Hale |
| Network Manager II - Unix |
| Computer Services |
| Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi |
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"UNIX is very user friendly, It's just very
particular about who it makes friends with."
ORIGIONAL MESSAGE:
Hello all,
System: Dec 3000 - M900
OS: Tru64 ver. 4.0e (Patchkit #2) + C2 Security
I've got a quick question about using usermod.
I try to issue the command:
/usr/sbin/usermod -l newname oldname
and get the reply:
The password and group files are currently locked by another user.
Please try again later.
I did a search of the archives and someone mentioned having this same
problem. The summary only stated that it had something to do with the
creation of the directory "/etc/ptmp". I checked to see if I had this
directory... It didn't exist... I tried creating it and still had
the same results using "usermod"...
Anyone know how to fix this?
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| Phil Hale |
| Network Manager II - Unix |
| Computer Services |
| Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi |
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"UNIX is very user friendly, It's just very
particular about who it makes friends with."
Received on Fri Jan 07 2000 - 17:03:44 NZDT