Help---Corrupted UTMP file on HP-UX

[Paul Hite]

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.

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