Thanks for responding so quickly :-) Deleting the files worked but when I tried to log back in it gave me the same error. I deleted them again and it worked. You say they should only be there when MCC is running. Why do you think they are not deleting themselves when I close MCC?
Thanks Russ On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 18:04, Damian Gatabria wrote: > On Monday 06 January 2003 04:56, Russ wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I was going to add some users but when I tried to access the Users I get > > this error message: > > > > Cannot lock user lib, > > file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist > > > > I have accessed it before so I know it worked at one time. Any ideas as > > to what happened? > > > > MD9 > > > > thanks > > Russ > > looks like a simple lockfile. These files exist only while userdrake > is running. Delete those files and try again. > > Damian
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