gilstrap@swbatl.sbc.com (3929) (03/16/90)
Okay, I should probably know this, but I'm not familiar with Xenix version
2.2.3 to any real degree. When anyone tries to change their password, the
message "temporary file is busy; try again later" (or something very close to
that) appears. Unfortunately, we don't have a complete set of manuals here
(don't ask *me*, I just got involved with this project) so it's probably
documented in one of the manuals we don't have. If someone would email (I
don't usually read this particular group) a pointer to the solution or the
solution itself, I'll happily shut up :-).
Thanks in advance,
Brian R. Gilstrap
uucibg@swbatl.uucp OR ...!{ texbell, uunet }!swbatl!uucibgbob@pds3 (Robert A. Earl) (03/19/90)
In article <1262@swbatl.sbc.com> gilstrap@swbatl.UUCP (Brian Gilstrap - UCI - 5-3929) writes: >Okay, I should probably know this, but I'm not familiar with Xenix version >2.2.3 to any real degree. When anyone tries to change their password, the >message "temporary file is busy; try again later" (or something very close to >that) appears. While I have not experienced this problem in Xenix, in NCR Unix (SVR2) this indicates the presence of a lock-file in the /etc directory. I don't recall the name exactly, something like /etc/ptmp....we never did figure out why it appeared on occasion...guess some program attempting to edit the passwd file bombed and left it behind. After removing the guilty file, passwd ran fine. NOTE: with such an important file...it is a good bet to make a backup copy of file before deleting. -- ============== Robert A. Earl uunet!pds3!bob