>From: centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:centos-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Wayne Bastow
>Sent: Thursday, 1 September 2005 1:14 PM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: Re: useradd: unable to lock password file
>
>Nick,
>
>Were you already running a useradd before you started this one? Maybe in
another terminal session.
Yes. It gets called about 10 times a minute at busy times... however it was
working fine then just suddenly stopped :(
>
>Try killing the process and see if the passwd.lock file is still there.
>
I've been through and looked for any other process and can't find one :(
Any other ideas?
>On 9/1/05, Nick <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi,
>-----------
>Help. I have an issue adding accounts to a centos box of joy that has
>otherwise been 100% reliable.
>
>Basically if I run a "useradd test" as root it returns useradd: unable to
>lock password file.
>
>There is a /etc/passwd.lock file:
>
>[root@bill etc]# more passwd.lock
>6697
>
>??PID USER???? PRI??NI??SIZE??RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM?? TIME CPU COMMAND
>6697 root??????25?? 0 22672??22M?? 612 R????47.2??1.1?? 1:02?? 1 useradd
>
>Eating lots of cpu... but doing what?
>
>If anyone has any clues I'd really appreciate the help :)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Nick
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