need URGENT help with SCO UNIX / TCP/IP - please

Martin Harris martinh at hpopd.HP.COM
Thu Nov 29 04:50:28 AEST 1990


 I have seen a similar error occur on my system -only it happened all the time
the solution was due to the update of the /etc/auth/system/ttys file going
wrong and leaving it empty and the new and/or old ttys (-t, -o) lying around
Solution if all the files ttys, ttys-t and ttys-o all exist and none are empty
(and ttys-t == ttys) then delete ttys-t and ttys-o. If only ttys-t and ttys-o
exist (or only ttys-t) then copy ttys-t to ttys and remove the surplas files.

 When fixing this I also came across the message that systems with large
numbers of users logging on and off will generate this message sporadically !
But no way of fixing this was mentioned. Do they use whole file locking on
ttys instead of record logging ??!!!

 Hope this of some use.

 Regards
 Martin Harris
 Hewlett-Packard - Pinewood England
 R&D Engineer.



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