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From: paul@prcrs.prc.com (Paul Hite)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help---Corrupted UTMP file on HP-UX
Keywords: utmp,hp-ux,login
Message-ID: <1900@prcrs.prc.com>
Date: 3 May 91 16:34:49 GMT
References: <1991May02.143526.17696@sdd.hp.com>
Distribution: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc
Organization: PRC Realty Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <1991May02.143526.17696@sdd.hp.com>, kurt@hpsdde.hp.com (Kurt Andersen) writes:
> Has anyone experienced (and, I hope solved) a problem wherein the
> /etc/utmp file gets clobbered (corrupted or emptied) under HP-UX
> 7.0 on a 9000/350 machine?  

HP changed the format of the utmp file with 7.0.  We had this problem
on our 9000/800's.  Anything that writes to utmp must be recompiled to
work with 7.0.  You must have some software somewhere that is doing this.
screen?  X from pd?  some homebrew package?  Find it and recompile it.

Paul Hite   PRC Realty Systems  McLean,Va   paul@prcrs.prc.com    (703) 556-2243
        You can't tell which way the train went by studying its tracks.