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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: SYSTEM logins weird
Message-ID: <9317@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Jan 90 11:24:13 GMT
References: <9533@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <9527@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <4614@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <4614@helios.ee.lbl.gov> envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) writes:
> In article <9533@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>,
> hurf@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Hurf Sheldon) writes:
> < 
> < 	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.
> 
> Any ideas?

Remember that the startup script edits the /etc/gettytab and /etc/ttys
files to update the system name.  I suspect this kind of thing might be
happening if your system croaks without haveing written out the new version.
On the other hand, unless it died withing a few moments after startup, it
*should* have written the stuff from the buffer pool...

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