On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Michael Havens wrote:
> It appeared that the new user I created last night did not have his home
> directory created where I wished it to be placed so I figured I would go fix
> it. I opened the control center and then the user window with the response
> "Cannot lock user lib,
> file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist"
These are temporary files used when modifying the user database. This
usually happens when someone (or something) is adding a new user (or
modifying via vipw, for example) at the same time.
Either wait until they are done; or kill the processes that are just
hanging around (like vipw, linuxconf, adduser, etc.).
Or if nothing is really using it, then simple remove those temporary
files.
Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/
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