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From: tomg@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Thomas J. Gilg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: A problem with /bin/login...keeps corrupting /etc/utmp
Message-ID: <101950136@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 5 Jul 90 23:59:54 GMT
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> 	But I still have the problem where /bin/login won't let anyboy loggin. 
> Sometimes it will let you remsh over, but that's rare.  And it turns out that 
> if you delete /etc/utmp and then try it, you can get in. ................... 

The format of utmp has changed for 7.0, and pre 7.0 programs that modify
utmp/wtmp/btmp need to be updated.  Some programs to watch out for include:

    /bin/login
    /bin/su
    /etc/getty

    /usr/bin/X11/hpterm
    /usr/bin/X11/xterm

If you do a fairly complete update, you should take care of the old
utmp programs.

Thomas Gilg
tomg@cv.hp.com