On Fri, Jul 28, 2000 at 11:30:11PM -0700, Bill Hudspeth wrote:
> I know I've done something wrong because:
> 
> 1.) Any time I try to set a password, I get a "password file is busy"
>     message.
> 
> 2.) During boot, a message appears, saying:
>    "root: password file  may be incorrect -- /etc/ptmp exists"
> 
> How can I restore a usable password file - obviously this error
> is not acceptable. Help!

Just delete /etc/ptmp (well, first check you don't have valuable informations
in it - it should be a copy of /etc/master.passwd).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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