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From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help---Corrupted UTMP file on HP-UX
Keywords: utmp,hp-ux,login
Message-ID: <1991May7.035914.183@sugra.uucp>
Date: 7 May 91 03:59:14 GMT
References: <1991May02.143526.17696@sdd.hp.com> <1900@prcrs.prc.com>
Distribution: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc
Organization: Private computer - Bloomfield NJ USA
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In article <1900@prcrs.prc.com>, paul@prcrs.prc.com (Paul Hite) writes:
: 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.

Some commerical packages such as the LAT emulator from KNET also need to be
upgraded to run under HP-UX 7.0.  According to them, we are the first people
to actually try it.

-- 
Kenneth Ng
Please reply to ken@hertz.njit.edu until this machine properly recieves mail.
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