Re: [cobalt-users] aliases file locked error, and site being deleted error, neither should be true

[René Mølsted <molsted@xxxxxxx>]

On 5/2-2004, at 4.54, Jale wrote:
> > Try '/sbin/init 6' or '/sbin/reboot' , if I get you right.
> thanks, /sbin/reboot worked - at least from here it looks like it 
> rebooted, it wouldn't ping for several minutes.
> But when I try to put an email forwarding address in via the GUI, I am 
> told the aliases file is locked.
> When I try to delete a site, I get:
> The system is busy deleting another site. Please try again later
> And both of these are after a fresh reboot.
> Any ideas of what I can do to get around these problems; or why it 
> thinks aliases is locked and another site is being deleted. I'm 
> migrating people to a new server but I still need to do some things on 
> this old one in the meantime.

Try this:
ls -la /etc/locks

You should see something lige this:
   0 -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Aug 30 23:24 monitor
   1 -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            5 May 22 16:22 SITEDEL

If you see the SITEDEL file, type this:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/admserv stop
rm /etc/locks/SITEDEL
/etc/rc.d/init.d/admserv start

All the above have to be done as root (su).

René Mølsted