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Old 8th March 2016
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
Based upon the discussion under DIAGNOSTICS in the passwd(1) man page, I will assume you have executed passwd(1) twice, and the first instance is still running.

Only one user may update the password database at any given time, as there are multiple files in /etc that must remain in sync.

Code:
# fstat /etc/ptmp

USER     CMD          PID   FD MOUNT        INUM MODE       R/W    SZ|DV NAME

# rm /etc/ptmp
that did it, thanks

Last edited by jjstorm; 8th March 2016 at 02:23 AM.
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