[ILUG] Users have dissappeared

[Paul Mc Auley]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 04:37:12PM +0100, Matt Lemon wrote:
| I have a big problem.  The server that my company uses to store profiles and
| mail files on refuses to let anyone (including root) login.  After trawlings
| through the log I quickly saw that the / partition was out of space.  I
| removed some files that weren't needed and restarted the machine.

| It starts but if I look in Webmin, there are no users listed and it still
| won't let anyone login.  I started the box in single user mode and checked
| the disk space and there is definitely space free now.
 
| Anyone come across this before ?  I really don't want to crack open the
| CD's :-(

Ouch. Odds on probability that /etc/passwd (or whatever) is zero-sized
after trying to update the file while the disk was full.

Look around for a temporary copy of the file.
	Paul