trouble with john

[benzslr123]

when i enter the command

john shadow2 --wordlist=/mnt/sda1/file1

(shadow2 being the hash file)
i get the reply:

Loaded 4 password hashes with 4 different salts (FreeDSD MD5 [32/32] )
Crash recovery file is locked: /usr/local/john/john.rec

what can i do to resolve this issue?
thank you for your time.

[purehate]

well sounds like you don't have permissions to the file for some reason. The john.rec file is simply for resuming a john session so i would delete it and also the john.pot file and try again. Remember if these files exist with a hash in it john will apear not to load the hash again.

[benzslr123]

thank you, that solved that problem but now i have a new one

bt ~ # john /root/shadow2 --wordlist=/mnt/sda1/file1
Loaded 4 password hashes with 4 different salts (FreeBSD MD5 [32/32])
guesses: 0 time: 0:00:00:39 100% c/s: 533 trying: zzzzzzzz


why does it say guesses 0?? also, i am nearly positive the password is contained in file1, why wouldn't it give me any results?

[bofh28]

How big is wordlist? Is it larger than the amount of RAM you have?

[benzslr123]

it is quite possible that it is larger than my RAM, should i use a smaller wordlist, or is there a way around this problem?

[bofh28]

#man split