On Wed, 2005-13-07 at 18:27 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> I've been copying old passwd/shadow/group files from system to system
> for ages across different distributions/updates and would like to
> get them back in sync with each other so the system tools will
> work. Now they hang like:
>
> #userdel irose
> hangs forever, syslog says:
> Jul 12 11:19:32 newftp userdel[30335]: delete user `irose'
> Jul 12 11:19:32 newftp userdel[30335]: delete `irose' from group `ftp'
> Jul 12 11:20:02 newftp last message repeated 373404 times
> Jul 12 11:21:04 newftp last message repeated 646597 times
> Jul 12 11:21:06 newftp last message repeated 29123 times
I recall a message about something similar to this in the Fedora users
lists, I believe. I think the person that reported it tracked it down
to a bug in useradd etc.
Run a search in the Fedora list, and check out bugzilla.
HTH,
Ranbir
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Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Systems Aligned Inc.
www.systemsaligned.com
