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visudo: busy try again later

Hello
I just want to edit the sudoers file but when i tries to open that its showing some error

Code:

root@ariem-desktop:/usr/local/etc# sudo visudo

visudo: /etc/sudoers busy, try again later

root@ariem-desktop:/usr/local/etc#

i didnt find any sudoers.tmp file
Can anybody help me?

If you are already logged in as root. You don't need to type 'sudo' in front of 'visudo'.

Why not use some other editors like nano?

Code:

nano /etc/sudoers

Yes it works fine for me. Thanks a lot

Quote:

Yes it works fine for me. Thanks a lot

... But you may not get the results you expect. From man visudo:

Code:

NAME

      visudo - edit the sudoers file



SYNOPSIS

      visudo [-c] [-q] [-s] [-V] [-f sudoers]



DESCRIPTION

      visudo edits the sudoers file in a safe fashion, analogous to vipw(8).

      visudo locks the sudoers file against multiple simultaneous edits, pro‐

      vides basic sanity checks, and checks for parse errors.  If the sudoers

      file is currently being edited you will receive a message to try again

      later.

So somebody is already editing the file.