Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center problems

2003-01-06 Thread Russ
Seems to have worked :-) Thanks Russ Hi again. I got nothing to do tonight. Is it too obvious? ;o) I opened up /usr/sbin/mcc to check it out... can you tell me if this solves your problem? first, open up a terminal and su to root. from that terminal, open your preferred text editor.

[newbie] Mandrake Control Center problems

2003-01-05 Thread Russ
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 Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center problems

2003-01-05 Thread K. Spress
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Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center problems

2003-01-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
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

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center problems

2003-01-05 Thread Russ
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

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center problems

2003-01-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Monday 06 January 2003 05:39, Russ wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center problems

2003-01-05 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Monday 06 January 2003 02:56, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Monday 06 January 2003 05:39, Russ wrote: 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