useradd

[Muhammad Rizwan]

I have /etc/group.lock file. 
There is only one entry in this file like this:
177^@

I guess there is some problem here... What should be its real form?

Regards,

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:27, Rus Foster wrote:
> 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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