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[James]

On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 09:11 +0100, Lubomir Matousek wrote:
> Dear list, 
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> I have the following problem when using rmuser (freebsd 6.2)
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> rmuser -v hana
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> Matching password entry:
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> hana:*:1091:1092::0:0:/usr/home/hana:/usr/sbin/nologin
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> Is this the entry you wish to remove? yes Remove user's home directory
> (/usr/home/hanka)? yes Removing crontab for (hana):.
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> Removing at(1) jobs owned by (hana): 0 removed.
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> Removing IPC mechanismsipcs: sysctlbyname: kern.ipc.shmmax: No such file or
> directory
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> ipcs: sysctlbyname: kern.ipc.shmmax: No such file or directory
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> ipcs: sysctlbyname: kern.ipc.shmmax: No such file or directory .
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> Terminating all processes owned by (hana): -KILL signal sent to 0 processes.
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> Removing files owned by (hana) in /tmp: 0 removed.
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> Removing files owned by (hana) in /var/tmp: 0 removed.
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> Removing mail spool(s) for (hana): /var/mail/hana.
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> Removing user (hana) (including home directory) from the system: Done.
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> The problem started, when I accidentaly deleted /usr/home directory and I
> had to create a new one. I checked /etc/password file and the direcory
> existed before using rmuser. Can anybody help please?
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> Lubos


Looks like the problem is that somewhere within there it's expected that
the home directory isn't /usr/home/hana, it's /usr/home/hanka

Have you checked /etc/master.passwd to make sure that there's no
mis-entry in there? Or just try creating /usr/home/hanka and see if it
works itself out.

James