[ILUG] Users have dissappeared {Scanned}

[Matt Lemon]

Paul,

That was exactly the problem, I restored a backup of /etc/passwd and
everything came back to life !

Phew !!!!!!!

Matt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Mc Auley" <paul at peema.org>
To: "Matt Lemon" <matthew at jacklemon.com>
Cc: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Users have dissappeared {Scanned}


> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 04:37:12PM +0100, Matt Lemon wrote:
> | I have a big problem.  The server that my company uses to store profiles
and
> | mail files on refuses to let anyone (including root) login.  After
trawlings
> | through the log I quickly saw that the / partition was out of space.  I
> | removed some files that weren't needed and restarted the machine.
>
> | It starts but if I look in Webmin, there are no users listed and it
still
> | won't let anyone login.  I started the box in single user mode and
checked
> | the disk space and there is definitely space free now.
>
> | Anyone come across this before ?  I really don't want to crack open the
> | CD's :-(
>
> Ouch. Odds on probability that /etc/passwd (or whatever) is zero-sized
> after trying to update the file while the disk was full.
>
> Look around for a temporary copy of the file.
> Paul
>
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