From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 11 00:03:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA08049 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 00:03:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA08040 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 00:03:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA02972; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 02:48:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199806110648.CAA02972@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: The password db file is busy In-Reply-To: <199806090527.AAA08254@mendota.terracom.net> from Bill Farina at "Jun 9, 98 00:30:26 am" To: bfarina@terracom.net (Bill Farina) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 02:48:27 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Farina wrote: > I had a power failure in the middle of running vipw. Now when I try to get > back in, I get the message-- > > vipw: the password db file is busy > > My question is, what is the name of the temporary file that is keeping me > out of vipw? > Look for /etc/pw.xxxxxx where xxxxxx is some stuff based on the vipw pid, e.g. /etc/pw.l9146 Dave -- "Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available." ... "Windows NT Server is completely secure and has been evaluated by the NCSC as such." --- http://www.microsoft.com/security To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message