My original question was that the user admin tools like adduser, passwd
and dxaccounts was failing giving a message saying that the password and
group files were locked by another user.
I got many responses for my e-mail. The simple explanation to this is that
each time dxaccounts runs it creats a file .AM_is_running. This file
prevents other user admin tools from running simultainously. This file is
deleted when the dxaccounts exits. But if dxaccounts is killed abnormily
the file .AM_is_running still remains will not let you to use the user admin
tools.
The simple solution to this problem is to check if dxaccounts is running,
if it is, stop it and then proceed, if it is not, just delete the file
.AM_is_running.
Received on Thu May 24 2001 - 16:31:49 NZST