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From: rodean@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bruce Rodean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: A problem with /bin/login...keeps corrupting /etc/utmp
Message-ID: <5570444@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Jul 90 15:55:46 GMT
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In article <3569@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> greg@cityzoo.acs.umbc.edu (Greg Sylvain,Lib 007a,3929,) writes:
>	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. Also, the check sum 
>is way of (my sum of /bin/login is :50122 200 /bin/login) what the normal sum
>should be, something like 60000 or so. The person I got the tape from said she
>had a similar problem after she installed, but it `went away'.  Does any one 
>have a clue ? 

You most likely have a unsupported command that writes to /etc/utmp.  At
7.0 the structure and/or size of /etc/utmp changed.  When /etc/utmp is
corrupted in this manner, you will see messages like ''No utmp entry.
You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh"''.  One common offender
I have heard about is telnetd.  Whatever it is, it needs to be
recompiled.

Hope this helps.

Bruce Rodean
rodean@hpfcla.FC.HP.COM

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