From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 8 22:27:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03938 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 22:27:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mendota.terracom.net (mendota.terracom.net [205.213.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA03932 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 22:27:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bfarina@terracom.net) Received: from billf.terracom.net (pm2-09.terracom.net [205.213.64.139]) by mendota.terracom.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA08254 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 00:27:02 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199806090527.AAA08254@mendota.terracom.net> X-Sender: bfarina@pop.terracom.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 00:30:26 -0500 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Bill Farina Subject: The password db file is busy In-Reply-To: <000201bd9361$67c7cca0$70a019cb@jason.webace.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had a power failure in the middle of running vipw. Now when I try to get back in, I get the message-- vipw: the password db file is busy My question is, what is the name of the temporary file that is keeping me out of vipw? Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message