[BlueOnyx:04075] Re: BlueQuartz Issues any suggestion?

[Muta Wakilu]

David,
My /etc, contains 3 password files
paaswd
passwd-
passwd.rpmnew
Howevr, there isnt a passwd.lock

Muta



On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:26 AM, David Booth <md at goulburn.net.au> wrote:

> Hi All
>> Sorry to bother you , I have a question regarding BQ, even though this is
>> a BO list.
>> I have a BQ box running over 6yrs, the last time I added a user was about
>> 2 weeks ago,
>> during this period, I had my awstats, not showing up data, after removing
>> awstats and installing, I did a yum update, during same operation, I found
>> my /boot  partition getting 93% full.
>> I removed some of the old kernels, and did yum again.Please wait for the
>> changes to complete.
>>  Now my headache is if I want to add a user, my BQ keeps running with
>> "Please wait for the changes to complete" but it never completes.
>>  I have delved in another step to change my password to flat file as shown
>> at "http://www.compassnetworks.com.au" [Convert your system back to flat
>> passwd files]
>>  However, after all these done, am still unable to add a user, any
>> suggestions?
>>
>> Muta
>>
>
> Is there a file
>
> /etc/passwd.lock
>
> If so, remove it.
>
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