I have several hosts running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p6. security/sudo was installed when installing FreeBSD using sysinstall.
When I run
The visudo(8) manpage says about this error: "Someone else is currently editing the sudoers file." But I am absoluteley sure that nobody else is currently editing this file. I also know that I used visudo successfully on one of this hosts.
I tried to re-install sudo (
Does anybody have a clue what could be the reason for the mentioned error?
Thanks in advance
--Markus
When I run
visudo
as root, it works on some hosts and on some I get:
Code:
visudo: /usr/local/etc/sudoers busy, try again later
The visudo(8) manpage says about this error: "Someone else is currently editing the sudoers file." But I am absoluteley sure that nobody else is currently editing this file. I also know that I used visudo successfully on one of this hosts.
I tried to re-install sudo (
pkg_deinstall sudo
+ portinstall sudo
) but this won't change anything.Does anybody have a clue what could be the reason for the mentioned error?
Thanks in advance
--Markus
Last edited by a moderator: