Creating new group

[Luis Franco]

I am usin SAM in order to create a new user group. I got the following error:

/etc/passwd File Busy --- try again.

Any ideas.

Thanks in advance for your help!!!

[Jean-Luc Oudart]

Check who is using this file :
as root :
fuser -fu /etc/passwd
or use lsof if you have it installed on your server

Regards,
Jean-Luc

[Hazem Mahmoud_3]

Do the following:

# fuser /etc/passwd

This will tell you which process ID is accessing the file.

-Hazem

[Juergen Tappe]

1. Check if there are proccesses running like
changing content of passwd file i.e.
ps -ef | grep passwd
ps -ef | grep vipw

or is another SAM Session running elsewhere?

2. If you cannot find anything check if the file /etc/ptmp is existing.
Tis file is used in HP-UX to block the password file for exclusive usage.

3. If you are sure nobody else ir realy using your password file.
rm /etc/ptmp
and try to create your group again.

[Luis Franco]

fuser -fs /etc/passwd returns: 1155o(root)

The file /etc/ptmp does not exits.

[Juergen Tappe]

OK whats the output of ps -fp 1155?

post the result and we'll see if we can kill it.

[Luis Franco]

ps -fs 1155 --->

root 1155 1 0 Apr 15 ? 0:19 /usr/sbin/pwgrd

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Luis,

That is the passwd caching deamon.

You could try a:
# kill -HUP 1155
and try again.

Or just kill the process.
you can always restart it as root:
#/usr/sbin/pwgrd

You could check the patch database for some patches.
http://www4.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?BC=patch.breadcrumb.main|patch.breadcrumb.pdb|patch.breadcrumb.search|&patchid=PHCO_28007&context=hpux:800:11:11

HTH,

Gideon

[Luis Franco]

I did the kill -HUP but still I can not create a new user group.

[Dani Seely]

Any reason why you have to do this through SAM? It's possible that there are additional SAM processes running. Suggest the following:

1) Exit all the way out of SAM and check for other SAM processes running (ps -ef |grep -i sam). If SAM processes are running, check to see who it is that is running this or kill the process(es).

2) If no SAM processes were running you may want to reboot ... this would be the cleanest way of removing the file lock rather than killing processes at random.

3) If you don't HAVE to use SAM, or if the problem still persists, try using the command line to create your new group. Look up the syntax and options for "groupadd" and see if you can create the group from the command line (you can specify the group name, the GID, etc. all at the command line just as you can through SAM).

[Luis Franco]

The file /etc/.pwd.lock was mising.
I did create it, and now I am able to create user groups using SAM.

Thanks all for your help!!!

[Dani Seely]

Hello Luis,
I assume this is your first experience on the ITRC forum as you did not award points to the forumers for the answers you were provided. May I suggest that you take a look at the following link to learn about the points system in use here. Thanks.

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#28

Please read the article, assess the assistance you were provided by the forumers, then reward them. Thanks!