From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On
Behalf Of Wayne Bastow
Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2005 1:14 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] useradd: unable to lock password file
Nick,
Were you already running a useradd before you started this one? Maybe in
another terminal session.
Yes. It gets called about 10 times a minute at busy times... however it was working fine then just suddenly stopped :(
Try killing the process and see if the passwd.lock file is still there.
I've been through and looked for any other process and can't find one :(
Any other ideas?
On 9/1/05, Nick list@everywhereinternet.com wrote: Hi,
Help. I have an issue adding accounts to a centos box of joy that has otherwise been 100% reliable.
Basically if I run a "useradd test" as root it returns useradd: unable to lock password file.
There is a /etc/passwd.lock file:
[root@bill etc]# more passwd.lock 6697
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME CPU COMMAND 6697 root 25 0 22672 22M 612 R 47.2 1.1 1:02 1 useradd
Eating lots of cpu... but doing what?
If anyone has any clues I'd really appreciate the help :)
Cheers,
Nick
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