useradd

[Muhammad Rizwan]

Thanks, now it does work.

Thanks and Regards,

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:51, Cleber P. de Souza wrote:
> Remove this group.lock file and try again.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 16:38:58 +0500, Muhammad Rizwan <rizwan at nixpanel.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 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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