"Mark R. Nathan" <mark@nathan.net>  wrote:
 > currently on a fpu'less BSD and am getting an error when I try 
 > accessing the vipw file or change a user's password.
 > 
 > "passwd file busy.  try again later"
 > 
 > I reboot and get the same.   Is there a file I should be looking for 
 > that has this in limbo?


/etc/ptmp