From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 27 02:54:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA20137 for current-outgoing; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 02:54:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanto.cc.jyu.fi (root@kanto.cc.jyu.fi [130.234.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA20056 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 02:54:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kallio@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanto.cc.jyu.fi (8.7.2/8.7.2) with ESMTP id MAA28609 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 1996 12:51:23 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 12:51:21 +0300 (EET DST) From: Seppo Kallio To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with useradd Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In useradd I am getting error ``pwd_mkdb -p'' failed, try to restore ... pwd_mkdb: /etc/spwd.db.tmp: File exists Sorry, give up And when trying again, error message pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd.orig: File exists The reason is clear: someone is changing passwd or some other way using pwd_mkdb. Seppo Kallio kallio@jyu.fi Computing Center Fax +358-14-603611 U of Jyväskylä 62.14N 25.44E Phone +358-14-603606 PL 35, 40351 Jyväskylä, Finland http://www.jyu.fi/~kallio