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From: sysop@gaianet.net (Chad Shackley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Cron error
Date: 16 Feb 1996 10:23:07 GMT
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All of the sudden I've been getting huge logs of cron activity saying:

Cannot lock file:  /etc/master.passwd

I'm not sure what caused this or how to fix it.

Chad