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From: jws@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (John Stafford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help---Corrupted UTMP file on HP-UX
Message-ID: <47810001@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com>
Date: 9 May 91 19:59:30 GMT
References: <1991May02.143526.17696@sdd.hp.com>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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You will probably hear from many people, but you are running some pre-7.0
program that modifies utmp (the format changed at 7.0).  Typical candidates
are xterm, hpterm, and rtime.  If you get (or recompile) 7.0 versions, the
problem will go away.