topic Re: No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh" in Operating System - HP-UX

No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh"

Bill Slaughter — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:44:25 GMT

I have looked on the forum, and the protection /ownership of my /etc/utmp file is correct.
644 root:root

This problem has just started, after maintenance (cabling, new F/W cards).

Any suggestions?

Thank you in advance.

Re: No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh"

Lasse Knudsen — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:51:45 GMT

Where do you get this.

Have you changed any suid programs (eg. dtterm ) ?

Re: No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh"

Rainer_1 — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 15:52:23 GMT

reset your utmp

>/etc/utmp

Re: No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh"

Shannon Petry — Mon, 20 Nov 2000 17:09:17 GMT

Did you install spaceware?
I have seen this lots of times. There installer creates an entry in /etc/inittab which needs to be modified. (You dont mention it, so probably not) but here is the change.
spbd:234:respawn:/etc/SpaceWare/spaceballd -d /dev/tty1p0
to
spbd:234:respawn:/etc/SpaceWare/spaceballd -d /dev/tty1p0 /dev/null 2>&1

If not, reset the utmp file by copying /dev/null . I.E. cp /dev/null /etc/utmp. chown root:root /etc/utmp; chmod 644 /etc/utmp. You may need to redo this for /etc/utmpx if you still have problems.

Regards,
Shannon

Re: No utmp entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "sh"

Brad Marks — Tue, 21 Nov 2000 01:40:32 GMT

I'm running HP-UX 10.20 and had this problem only with the modem ports. I learned that /etc/inittab's first entry (id) has to be four characters in length. I changed a4 to a004 and the error went away.

Hope this (maybe) helps,
Brad