SUMMARY: Sol 8 : No utmpx entry. no logins possible

Thanks all and sundry who responded so quickly.

My commands;

echo > /var/adm/wtmpx ; echo > /var/adm/utmpx

Introduced a new line into the file.  I had forgotten that.


Some methods that work are:

1.e
# cat /dev/null > /var/adm/wtmpx
# cat /dev/null > /var/adm/utmpx

2.
# > /etc/utmpx
# > /etc/wtmpx

3.
# cat /dev/null > utmpx
# cat /dev/null > wtmpx

Or a more elbaorate method from David Foster such as;

4.
#!/bin/csh -f
foreach f ( utmpx wtmpx )
echo "fixing $f ..."
/usr/lib/acct/wtmpfix /var/adm/$f > /tmp/$f
cp /var/adm/$f /var/adm/${f}.o
mv -f /tmp/$f /var/adm/$f
end
exit 0

thanks goes out to Jon Godfrey, David Foster, Julian John, David Harrington
and Musa Williams.


Regards,
Si.

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