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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Unable to create user in linux Post 302515505 by ankurk on Wednesday 20th of April 2011 08:46:45 AM
Old 04-20-2011
Unable to create user in linux
Hi

Code:
 
[ankkhura@xyz/]$ uname -a
Linux xyz 2.6.18-128.0.0.0.2.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 05:17:33 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


I am unable to add a new user getting following

Code:
[root@xyz~]# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),1024(txtdba),1235(txtdba7),9045(dba_jh)
[root@xyz~]# useradd ank
useradd: cannot create directory /home/ank

If i go to / and do ls -altr i can see the home directory is there but 0 Bytes.

Code:
[root@xyz/]# pwd
/
[root@xyz/]# ls -altr
total 244
drwxrwxrwx   2 root root   4096 Dec  4  2002 ade
drwxr-xr-x  28 root root   4096 Dec  6  2002 var
drwxrwxrwx  14 root root   4096 Feb 13  2004 scratch
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Apr  3  2004 ade_autofs
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Jun  5  2007 .automount
drwxr-xr-x  17 root root   4096 Sep 11  2007 usr
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Jan  9  2009 srv
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Jan  9  2009 media
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Jan 21  2009 misc
drwx------   2 root root  16384 Mar 30 19:27 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  12288 Mar 30 21:16 lib64
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root   4096 Mar 30 21:16 lib
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Mar 30 21:16 bin
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  12288 Mar 30 21:16 sbin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root      0 Mar 30 21:19 net
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Mar 30 23:27 selinux
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   4096 Mar 30 23:49 tftpboot
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root games    28 Mar 30 23:59 OracleProd -> /usr/local/redhat/OracleProd
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root games    18 Mar 30 23:59 oracle -> /OracleProd/oracle
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root   4096 Mar 31 00:01 LOCAL_SWAP
drwxr-x---   3 root root   4096 Mar 31 00:01 root
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   4096 Mar 31 00:02 boot
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root   4096 Mar 31 00:02 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root   4096 Mar 31 00:02 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 171 root root      0 Mar 31 00:07 proc
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root      0 Mar 31 00:07 sys
-rw-r--r--   1 root root      0 Mar 31 00:08 .autorelabel
-rw-r--r--   1 root root      0 Mar 31 00:08 .autofsck
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      0 Mar 31 00:08 home
-rw-------   1 root root   1024 Mar 31 00:09 .rnd
drwxr-xr-x  30 root root   4096 Mar 31 00:09 ..
drwxr-xr-x  30 root root   4096 Mar 31 00:09 .
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root   3860 Mar 31 00:09 dev
drwxrwxrwt   5 root root   4096 Apr 20 04:02 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 143 root root  12288 Apr 20 12:40 etc

Does that make a differnece
 

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paps

PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME

       paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango

SYNOPSIS

       paps [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

       paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
       through the pango ft2 backend.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
       included below.

       --landscape
	      Landscape output. Default is portrait.

       --columns=cl
	      Number of columns output. Default is 1.

       --font=desc
	      Set the font description. Default is Monospace 12.

       --rtl  Do rtl layout.

       --paper ps
	      Choose paper size. Known paper sizes are legal, letter, a4. Default is A4.

       --bottom-margin=bm
	      Set bottom margin in postscript points (1/72 inch). Default is 36.

       --top-margin=tm
	      Set top margin. Default is 36.

       --left-margin=lm
	      Set left margin. Default is 36.

       --right-margin=rm
	      Set right margin. Default is 36.

       --help Show summary of options.

       --header
	      Draw page header for each page.

       --markup
	      Interpret the text as pango markup.

       --encoding=ENCODING
	      Assume the documentation encoding is ENCODING.

       --lpi  Set the lines per inch. This determines the line spacing.

       --cpi  Set the characters per inch. This is an alternative method of specifying the font size.

       --stretch-chars
	      Indicates  that  characters  should be stretched in the y-direction to fill up their vertical space. This is similar to the texttops
	      behaviour.

AUTHOR

       paps was written by Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>.

       This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan <kaplan@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								  April  17, 2006							   PAPS(1)
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