From: Claus Derlien (CD@f-f.dk)
Date: Wed Apr 21 2004 - 10:07:01 EDT
Thanks for the quick replies as usual :
My question is her :
> I have an old digital alpha 2000 running Tru64 4.0e
> with enhanced security, the system has been running smoothly
> for a long time
> but now i got this message when i try to run usermod as root :
>
> The password and group files are currently locked by another user
>
> fuser doesn't reveal anything regarding passwd and group, so
> there must be
> some other files
> onvolved which is locked, the lock survives a reboot ??
>
> Any Ideas ??
>
The following answered within a few minutes:
BL Venkatesh
Michael W
Subhash P
Smith, Lawrie
Darryl Cook
Osin McGuinness
Ron Parker
The Answer was to delete .AM_is_running from /etc
sorry for not checking the faq first
Claus Derlien
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Claus Derlien
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direkte : 63 13 86 69
email : cd@f-f.dk
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