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George M Jempty
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‎03-08-2002 07:13 AM

‎03-08-2002 07:13 AM

another userdel bug?

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
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S.K. Chan
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‎03-08-2002 07:24 AM

‎03-08-2002 07:24 AM

Re: another userdel bug?

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.
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Steve Steel
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‎03-08-2002 07:29 AM

‎03-08-2002 07:29 AM

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Re: another userdel bug?

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
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