Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:06:51 -0500 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'trim New York' <trimnyc@addr4.addr.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: error changing password Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105D42@site2s1>
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Sounds like your /tmp dir is full. Try deleting some stuff in /tmp. Alternatively, if you've never doing anything to change it, your /tmp is probably on the root partition, which is pretty small to begin with. You check the free disk space by typing 'df -k' at the comand prompt. If the /tmp dir is still on the / (root) partition I would strongly suggest moving it to a larger partition, such as /usr. The steps to do so are as follows. mkdir /usr/tmp chmod 1777 /usr/tmp rm -rf /tmp ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: trim New York [SMTP:trimnyc@addr4.addr.com] > Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 1999 11:03 AM > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: error changing password > > hi > when i try to change my password, i get this message: > passwd: updating the database... > pwd_mkdb: /etc/spwd.db.tmp: No such file or directory > passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged > > any ideas?? > > here is my uname -a information: > > FreeBSD addr4.addr.com 3.3-19990929-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-19990929-STABLE #2: > Mon O > ct 4 06:52:13 GMT 1999 > root@addr4.addr.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ADDRKERN i > 386 > > > ________________________________________________ > trim: www.trimnyc.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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