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Re: adduser and passwd errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Fri Oct 25 14:23:07 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 10:54:16 MDT."
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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 13:30:21 -0400
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Mac McClellan writes:
>1. adduser gives me the error: /etc/passwd is locked. Try again later.
>Even after a fresh boot it says locked. I'm not sure what is keeping the
>passwd locked.
Read point 9 of the errata, at
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/rh40-errata-general.html
>2. I am able to add a user in X windows using control panel/users. However
>instead of getting the normal prompt ([user@computer /home_directory]$) I
>get this error:
>
>ulimit: not found
>
>and this prompt:
>
>[\u@\h \W]\$
>
>Any ideas?
Probably depends on what shell you are using. What shell are you
using? Have you applied all the updates relavant to shells in the
errata?
michaelkjohnson
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