Help---Corrupted UTMP file on HP-UX

[Tim Pozar]

In article <1900 at prcrs.prc.com> paul at prcrs.prc.com (Paul Hite) writes:
>In article <1991May02.143526.17696 at sdd.hp.com>, kurt at 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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