useradd

[Rus Foster]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Muhammad Rizwan wrote:

> 
> Hello
> 
> I am trying to add user with the following command in fedora core 2:
> 
> /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -M -d /home/test12 test12
> With this above mentioned command, i am getting the following error:
> useradd: error locking group file

Check for the existance of /etc/.groups.lck or /etc/group.lck. IT means 
there is a stale file around

Rus
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