On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 15:32 +1000, Nick Bryant wrote: > > On 8/31/05, Nick Bryant <list at everywhereinternet.com> wrote: > > > Ok $200USD for anyone who can help me fix this now.... rebooted and it > > > doesn't say the file is locked anymore... the useradd command just > > doesn't > > > die or return anything and just sits there chewing data :( > > > > > > Man down. > > > > > > > How about pwck and/or grpck ? > > > > And if that fixes it, send the money to the CentOS developers. > > > > Be glad too. > > Ok I think I found the problem... is there a maximum number of entries in > /etc/passwd? I just removed the last 1000 lines and its working again, total > entires in the file now 59463. > > Problem is its really slow to add new users now (around 10 seconds). We have > several scripts that create newusers so I guess that's what caused the > locking situation. > > Could a corruption be whats slowing it down (running pwck -r now) or am I > just approaching the limits of a flat file auth scheme? Take a look at /etc/login.defs the stock max UID is 60000. Sean