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From: envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: SYSTEM logins weird
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Date: 12 Jan 90 00:28:58 GMT
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In article <9533@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>,
hurf@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon) writes:
< 
< 	Posting my own followup:
< 	I found that /etc/gettytab had been
< 	rewritten with the top 3690 bytes of /etc/passwd - this
< 	is the second time under Ultrix3.1 on 2 different systems
< 	this has happened - ?????
< 

We had the same problem in Ultrix 3.0.
At first I thought I had rcp'd the file on top of itself which is guaranteed
to clobber the file in a similar way, but then I realized that
I hadn't changed /etc/gettytab (ever), so I hadn't run rcp at all on it.

It happened on two of our six machines.
Any ideas?
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Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL, these non-opinions are all mine.