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Old 8th March 2016
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$ passwd
Changing local password for userx
Old password:
New password:
Retype new password:
Attempting to lock password file, please wait or press ^C to abort............................................^C
Password unchanged.

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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.

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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.

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# fstat /etc/ptmp

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

# rm /etc/ptmp
that did it, thanks

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You've followed part of the instructions in the man page. It first states...
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If the process holding the lock was prematurely terminated the lock file
may be stale and passwd will wait forever trying to lock the password
file. To determine whether a live process is actually holding the lock,
the admin may run the following:
You ran the fstat command, and posted the output. The man page goes on to state...
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If no process is listed, it is safe to remove the /etc/ptmp file to clear
the error.
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You've followed part of the instructions in the man page. It first states...You ran the fstat command, and posted the output. The man page goes on to state...
I thought that was just a heading, and expected to see something below it. So do I have a major problem now?
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From what you've posted, you may safely delete the file.

# rm /etc/ptmp

It is a temporary file, which exists only while someone is running one of the password database maintenance commands, to prevent multiple users from updating the flight of password files simultaneously.
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You've followed part of the instructions in the man page. It first states...You ran the fstat command, and posted the output. The man page goes on to state...
What would the proper course of action have been?
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# rm /etc/ptmp as described in the man page and in my post number 6 above.
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# rm /etc/ptmp as described in the man page and in my post number 6 above.
O.K, I was just confused by post # 4.


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