From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pa3gcu Subject: Re: adduser Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 19:40:20 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <03040119402002.04891@unix.pa3gcu> References: <3E87FA51.3060100@arrakis.es> <03033119595605.04308@unix.pa3gcu> <3E8943C3.1080201@arrakis.es> Reply-To: pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3E8943C3.1080201@arrakis.es> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Andrew Langdon-Davies , linux-newbie On Tuesday 01 April 2003 07:46, Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote: > pa3gcu wrote: > >On Monday 31 March 2003 08:20, Andrew Langdon-Davies wrote: > >>Mandrake 9.0 > >> > >>control center>system>users > >>"Cannot lock user lib, > >>file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist". > >> > >>Yes, both exist. > > > >As far as i see it, that is the problem, they are presant in /etc. > > > >Maybe you could be a little more spesific in you explanation.!! > > They *were* there, yes. I wasn't sure if I could just get rid of them, > but in the end I did and everything works all right. According to > something I found via Google, they are temporary files 'left over' by > the Mandrake Control Centre. The thing is, they get 'left over' again > any time I reboot the machine. Presumably, this shouldn't happen. Could > it be a sign of something wrong that needs putting right? Ah!, ok like i said, this is a common problem with all distro's, i cannot say if Mandrake has any spesific reasons for leaving them there, IMHO *tmp files can normally be deleted without problems however caution is the word. > Cheers, > Andrew > -- Regards Richard pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs