Below is my first question. Since then I've ascertained that this
problem doesn't happen on a virgin redhat 5.0 system. It only happens
on the systems I've done the security updates on (2 of each). Maybe this
will help narrow down the problem.
John
>
>
>Hi,
>I used chfn and it worked once and after that it's broken. I suspect it
>left a lock file somewhere. I tried the upgrade to util-linux-2.7-15,
>but it's still broke. Here is a sample session....
>
> [1][11:01am]jweber:linus:~> chfn
> Changing finger information for jweber.
> Password:
> Name [John Weber]: John S. Weber
> Office [635]:
> Office Phone [556-5394]:
> Home Phone []:
>
> setpwnam: File exists
> Finger information *NOT* changed. Try again later.
>
>Anybody know which file exists that needs to be removed? The errata
>mentions /tmp/ptmp, but I don't have that one.
>
>John Weber
>
>Center for Computational Mathematics System Administrator
>University of Colorado at Denver
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Campus ext: 65394 (303)556-5394 off campus
>http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~jweber
>
>
>
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