From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 19 12:55:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailout00.sul.t-online.de (mailout00.sul.t-online.de [194.25.134.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F2A37B61A for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:55:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Meerwaldt@t-online.de) Received: from fwd07.sul.t-online.de by mailout00.sul.t-online.de with smtp id 12i0ZP-0004Pa-05; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:55:31 +0200 Received: from server.wes.mee.com (320044045192-0001@[62.156.3.102]) by fwd07.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 12i0ZD-0aJpVAC; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:55:19 +0200 Received: from server.wes.mee.com (server.wes.mee.com [192.168.1.1]) by server.wes.mee.com (8.9.3/FreeBSD V4.0) with ESMTP id UAA01840; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:41:09 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 20:41:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Meerwaldt@t-online.de (Frederik Meerwaldt) To: c.raven@ukonline.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vipw - pwd.db locked In-Reply-To: <009d01bfa95d$bd0f1c40$0200000a@cian.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: 320044045192-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! does the vi session still run in the Backgroud? ps ax | grep vi ??? If yes, try to kill it: kill -9 PID of VI HTH, Freddy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message