topic Re: another userdel bug? in Operating System - HP-UX

another userdel bug?

George M Jempty — Fri, 08 Mar 2002 15:13:02 GMT

This issue is not listed in being addressed in the latest patch from last month, s700_800 11.00 user/group(add/mod/del):

So many files got copied into one of my new users directories that the / filesystem became 100% full. To clear the files and start the user over from scratch, I issued userdel -r. This resulted in both /etc/passwd and /etc/group being truncated to 0 byte files.

Has anybody experienced this before? I'm a newbie sysadmin (next time I'll just use rm -r on the users directory): does this sound like bug material? If so, how do I go about reporting it?

Thanks in advance

Re: another userdel bug?

S.K. Chan — Fri, 08 Mar 2002 15:24:26 GMT

What was the patch you installed ? What's the OS version ?If you're on 10.20 for example, PHCO_18925 should address the issue.

Re: another userdel bug?

Steve Steel — Fri, 08 Mar 2002 15:29:41 GMT

Hi

This problem is caused by / being full and nothing else

The script to change the passwd file makes a copy which failed because of no place and then of course it was zero.

If / is full always make space before you do anything else.

Steve Steel