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From: harry@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Harry Phinney)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Corrupt utmp entry on HPs
Message-ID: <100920283@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>
Date: 28 Jan 91 21:11:51 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.191810@axion.bt.co.uk>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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Ivan Warner writes:
> We are having problems with two of our HP clusters, which continually
> get corrupt utmp entries

> I've spoken to HP, and they think it may be an X client causing the
> problem. We are running MIT's X11R4, patch level 18 on both clusters.
> One cluster is running HP-UX 6.5, the other HP-UX 7.0

The most likely cause is having xterm (or hpterm) compiled for one of
these two releases, and running it on the other release.  The utmp file
structure changed between HP-UX 6.5 and 7.0, so the terminal emulator
must be compiled with the proper header file for the release.

Harry Phinney   harry@hp-pcd.cv.hp.com