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From: diingyu@hpss2.HP.COM (Diing Yu Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Corrupt utmp entry on HPs
Message-ID: <3330005@hpss2.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Jan 91 07:48:23 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.191810@axion.bt.co.uk>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Singapore (Sales)
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Hi,

One of the possible reason for the problem that you have observed is 
due to the differences in HP-UX 6.X and HP-UX 7.0. The utmp format
has changed! What happens is that when you use the xterm that was coded
for HPUX 6.X (or hpterm for that matter) on HPUX 7.0 or vice versa,
the data written to the utmp file is different enough to cause NULL
entries in the table which cause the screwup that you have seen.

The key to remember is to use the right version of xterm on the right
version of OS.

regards

Diing Yu Chen 	diingyu@hpss2
Hewlett Packard Sales Singapore