Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 12:08:09 +0930 (CST) From: Gregory Lewis <glewis@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au> To: DRCAnderson@xtra.co.nz (David Anderson) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help Please - Newbie Adding User Message-ID: <9905030238.AA23974@dartagnan.maths.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <001701be95aa$6fdbb040$48a7fea9@DavidAnderson> from David Anderson at "May 3, 99 02:08:14 pm"
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> >/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. > > 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? The relevance is your / partition is full. The new password database can't be correctly written as you haven't any free space on the partition where its going. > 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? They are temporary files created by vipw while you are editing the password file. > 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. There are a number of methods for adding users, but they'll all fail until you free up some space on / -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 3237 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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