Thanks, however the error msg gives the file name.  What is misssing is
information on how to delete the file contents and begin again.  Nothing =
in
the online docs address this problem.  The online docs allude to this iss=
ue
but are incomplete as to a fix.

Will you  explain what I need to do?  Thanks, Petra


Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> wrote:
> "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


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