Re: adduser problems

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From: William Edward Webber
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 00:00

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On 9 Nov 1997 22:31:11 +1100, Graham Daveney (graham@daveney.matra.com.au) wrote:
: When I get to the end of the program I get this error message
: 
:  /etc/passwd locked, try again
: 
: I've tried searching for /etc/.pwd.lock files, but could not find any.
 
Shouldn't you be looking under /var/lock?

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William Webber        Multimedia Database Systems, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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  has grown so large.  Ah-ha!  This is the sort of uselessness that sages
  live by.'" --- _The_Book_of_Chuang_Tzu_

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