adduser not found

[Sumit Ahuja]

thanks a lot bob! I could solve both the problems.
--Sumit
Quoting Bob McClure Jr <bob at bobcatos.com>:

> On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 10:00:48PM -0400, Sumit Ahuja wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am a newbee on linux. I have two questions:
> > 1-) I didn't find adduser or useradd command to add users. I am currently
> having
> > command line access to my machine only so I cannot use graphical utility to
> add
> > user.
>
> You should have the useradd (and usermod and userdel) command.  How is
> it you think you don't?
>
> (If you are su-ing to root, be sure to "su -" so that you get all of
> root's environment, especially his PATH, which includes /sbin and
> /usr/sbin.)
>
> > 2-) I have been strangly seeing some excessive amount of disk usage on my
> > account. I checked my account and it shows as if I am using 100Gb space but
> > once I calculate the size of all the visible directories it comes out 5Gb
> only.
> > I checked all extenstion .*, *.*, *...Any way to get hold on this?
>
> If you
>
>   cd
>   du -s
>
> you get all space consumed by your HOME directory.  Then to get it
> broken down by directory (including ".*" directories and files), do
>
>   du -s `ls -A` | less
>
> (Those backticks (`) are the key above the [Tab] key on most
> keyboards.)  When you see a large directory, say, ".foobar", you can
>
>   cd .foobar
>   du -s `ls -A` | less
>
> Keep doing that until you've sufficiently narrowed things down.
>
> > Thanks in advance!
> > --Sumit
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
> bob at bobcatos.com             http://www.bobcatos.com
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