This is sooooo strange!

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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: This is sooooo strange!
I keep removing them and they keep coming back.

On Saturday 15 February 2003 11:01 am, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 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/

>
> p.s. You may get better response, if the subject line accurately descri=

bes
> the topic of your message.
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