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Subject: Re: strangs behaviour of adduser
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At 14:46 29/01/99 +0100, you wrote:

>I'm tryin' to add a user using the /stand/sysinstall. Entering all the
>requested values and pressing enter starts the process, but 'hangs' and is
>running till I shutdown the machine.

[snip]

>  481  v0  I+     0:02.59 /stand/sysinstall
>  495  v0  Z+     0:00.00  (pw)

If I read that right, pw has zombied?

Can you kill -9 481?

d.


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