From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 3 14: 3:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (ns.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCAF815113 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 14:03:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:03:34 -0500 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105D42@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: 'trim New York' Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: RE: error changing password Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:06:51 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sounds like your /tmp dir is full. Try deleting some stuff in /tmp. Alternatively, if you've never doing anything to change it, your /tmp is probably on the root partition, which is pretty small to begin with. You check the free disk space by typing 'df -k' at the comand prompt. If the /tmp dir is still on the / (root) partition I would strongly suggest moving it to a larger partition, such as /usr. The steps to do so are as follows. mkdir /usr/tmp chmod 1777 /usr/tmp rm -rf /tmp ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: trim New York [SMTP:trimnyc@addr4.addr.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 11:03 AM > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: error changing password > > hi > when i try to change my password, i get this message: > passwd: updating the database... > pwd_mkdb: /etc/spwd.db.tmp: No such file or directory > passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged > > any ideas?? > > here is my uname -a information: > > FreeBSD addr4.addr.com 3.3-19990929-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-19990929-STABLE #2: > Mon O > ct 4 06:52:13 GMT 1999 > root@addr4.addr.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ADDRKERN i > 386 > > > ________________________________________________ > trim: www.trimnyc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message