On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 05:07:51AM -0800, Edi Mitrea wrote: > hi there, Hello
> las night i tried to install a mail server, i mean postfix. i tried to add 2 > users, with useradd or adduser commands but i called off. later when i tried > to change some stuff in my passwd file, whitch i tried to edit with "vipw" it > keep giving me this message all the time : > > bash-3.00# vipw > vipw: the passwd file is busy or you cannot lock. If you are not root, please try sudo vipw or login as root and try vipw again. > bash-3.00# useradd someuser > useradd: can't obtain pw_lock: File exists Same as above. If this solves your problems, my advice is to buy a book about unix administration and/or special books about openbsd. AND read the faq and the manpage, after that you have very few questions ;). -- gruesse joerg "joerch" buechner -- "Kaum macht mans richtig, schon funktionierts!" (busack thomas) --
