useradd

[Cleber P. de Souza]

Remove this group.lock file and try again.


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:38:58 +0500, Muhammad Rizwan <rizwan at nixpanel.com> wrote:
> 
> I have /etc/group.lock file.
> There is only one entry in this file like this:
> 177^@
> 
> I guess there is some problem here... What should be its real form?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:27, Rus Foster wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Muhammad Rizwan wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I am trying to add user with the following command in fedora core 2:
> > >
> > > /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -M -d /home/test12 test12
> > > With this above mentioned command, i am getting the following error:
> > > useradd: error locking group file
> >
> > Check for the existance of /etc/.groups.lck or /etc/group.lck. IT means
> > there is a stale file around
> >
> > Rus
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