Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 14:08:14 -0700 From: "David Anderson" <DRCAnderson@xtra.co.nz> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re:Help Please - Newbie Adding User Message-ID: <001701be95aa$6fdbb040$48a7fea9@DavidAnderson>
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Hi again Re: >/etc/pw.0kb345 16 lines, 884 chars >vipw: rebuilding the data base........ >Write failed file system is full. >/kernel: pid 350 (pwd_mkdb), vid 0 on /:file system full. Ulairi wrote: >do a "df" for us, just in case. the pw.xxxx is a temp file that vipw >uses (rather, the editor you're using with vipw creates that)... This is what I get myname# df -ik -t pw.0kb345 Filesystem 1kblocks Used Avail Cap iuse ifree %used mount /dev/wd0s1a 19815 10511 -1281 107% 1068 3986 21% / I dont understand the relevance? I have spent a few hours since the last posting. My main line of thought is that with pwd_mkdb I'm dealing with a number of pw.xxx files that are hash referenced. From Greg Leheys book "The list of users is kept in file /etc/passwd....FreeBSD keeps the real information in a file called /etc/master.passwd and for performance reasons also makes it available in database form in /etc/pwd.db and /etc/sdwd.db" so when I get >Write failed file system is full. >/kernel: pid 350 (pwd_mkdb), vid 0 on /:file system full. Is it the file itself or the database files being referred to? Come to think of it - where do the pw.xxxxxx files fit into this description? As some backgroung info - I first tried to add user by going through /stand/sysinstall menu method. The user did not appear in the file viewed using vipw. I could very well have added the extra root entry referred to in my last posting but do not remember doing so. Any help would be very much appreciated. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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