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On Thursday, 07 April, 2011 03:09 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 04/06/2011 11:54 PM, Rod James Bio wrote:
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Now my question is what was the cause why those files had gone blank? I
never experience this kind of problem before in ubuntu and centos so I
was thinking it was a distro-specific problem. I already search google
but the same question had gone unanswered by the community.
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I'm only guessing, you understand, but it's quite possible that the two
problems are related. Some program tried to modify the password file
(and shadow, of course) and as a first step, renamed them to make
backups. Then, it opened /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, creating new
versions but was unable to write to either file because the / partition
was full. (Remember, /etc must be on the / partition because it has to
be available before the other partitions are mounted because that's
where fstab lives.)
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Thanks. That could be it. I'll look for that process. Thanks again<br>
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I don't think 'It's better than hurling yourself into a meat
grinder'
is a good rationale for doing something. -- Andrew Suffield in
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