libutil: remove extraneous ": " from error messages

Each of the err() family of functions already takes care of that.

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libutil/gr_util.c b/lib/libutil/gr_util.c
index 796cbf021ded..bab4143be731 100644
--- a/lib/libutil/gr_util.c
+++ b/lib/libutil/gr_util.c
@@ -108,11 +108,11 @@ gr_lock(void)
 			if (errno == EWOULDBLOCK) {
 				errx(1, "the group file is busy");
 			} else {
-				err(1, "could not lock the group file: ");
+				err(1, "could not lock the group file");
 			}
 		}
 		if (fstat(lockfd, &st) == -1)
-			err(1, "fstat() failed: ");
+			err(1, "fstat() failed");
 		if (st.st_nlink != 0)
 			break;
 		close(lockfd);
diff --git a/lib/libutil/pw_util.c b/lib/libutil/pw_util.c
index 1659c97a7fcd..94db72029062 100644
--- a/lib/libutil/pw_util.c
+++ b/lib/libutil/pw_util.c
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ pw_lock(void)
 			if (errno == EWOULDBLOCK) {
 				errx(1, "the password db file is busy");
 			} else {
-				err(1, "could not lock the passwd file: ");
+				err(1, "could not lock the passwd file");
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ pw_lock(void)
 		 * close and retry.
 		 */
 		if (fstat(lockfd, &st) == -1)
-			err(1, "fstat() failed: ");
+			err(1, "fstat() failed");
 		if (st.st_nlink != 0)
 			break;
 		close(lockfd);