looking forward this problem since rh8, why redhat came with passwd pam.d with lock file? compare with passwd pam.d that come with mandrake heard, if that can avoid for corrupt database On 9/1/05, Nick <list at 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 at 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 > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- ichtus _______________________________________________ Lewi Supranata .K iPLUG Team 1. http://mbone.petra.ac.id/u/ichtus 2. http://ichtus.blogs.friendster.com GnuPG Public Key: http://mbone.petra.ac.id/u/ichtus/ichtus-keys2 _______________________________________________