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From: joe@bwdlh111.BNR.CA (Joe Waddington)
Subject: Re: X11R4 problems on HPUX 7.0
Message-ID: <1991Jan26.135848.14173@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
Keywords: utmp HPUX 7.0 X11R4 window
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Reply-To: joe@bwdlh111.BNR.CA (Joe Waddington)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
References: <1991Jan23.143556@dali.gatech.edu> <1991Jan24.152453.848@eye.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 91 13:58:48 GMT

We had the same problem, and it was due to the fact that there was a 6.5
version of the hpterm program that did not get replaced in the update
(the reasons aren't important tothis problem).  What was happening, was
that the hpterm program was writing 6.5 style utmp entries into the utmp
file, and the login program could not understand these entries.

The utmp entry format has changed as of 7.0 (yes, for POSIX compliance).

ANY 6.5 PROGRAM THAT WRITES UTMP ENTRIES on a 7.0 SYSTEM WILL CORRUPT
THE UTMP FILE AND PREVENT LOGINS.

Hope this helps

Joe

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