Re: visudo

[Daniel Martin at cush <dtm12@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>]

Corey Miller <mille542@cps.msu.edu> writes:

> 	While I was editing my /etc/sudoers file using the visudo command,
> my computer lost power. When I was able to restore power, everything
> seemed to be functioning alright. Except, I tried to run the visudo
> command, and got the following error:
> 
> visudo: sudoers file busy, try again later.
> 
> 	I tried removing the file, then renaming a backup copy to
> /etc/sudoers, and it still gave the same error. Then I tried removing and
> reinstalling the package, only to get the same error. If it makes a diff,
> I'm running hamm. Thanks for any help you can provide,

visudo copies the sudoers file to /etc/stmp before working on it.  You 
can fix you problem by doing "rm /etc/stmp".

Incidentally, you might have been able to diagnose this problem by
running 'strace visudo' and then looking at the last few lines before
visudo prints the error message it gives you.


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