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From: pozar@kumr.lns.com (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help---Corrupted UTMP file on HP-UX
Keywords: utmp,hp-ux,login
Message-ID: <1991May8.211622.781@kumr.lns.com>
Date: 8 May 91 21:16:22 GMT
References: <1991May02.143526.17696@sdd.hp.com> <1900@prcrs.prc.com>
Distribution: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc
Organization: Late Night Software (San Francisco)
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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.

    Look at login and see what it is doing.  Also init.

                 Tim

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