The current time on your machine comes before the time on your /etc/passwd file

[Timothy P. Jackson]

Hi Everyone,

I am getting this error message on one of my servers.

The current time on your machine comes before the time on your /etc/passwd file

I have seen it before but I can't remember what I did to correct it.  I am running HP-UX 11.11 on a rp4440. I think it has to do with a user or process that was updating the passwd file and was aborted leaving a temporary password file somewhere but I don't remember for sure if that is the issue.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Tim

[Ajin_1]

Hi

You may have a corrupted passwd file , The ordinary system time, shown and set by date, is maintained by the kernel while os is running. may it was the difference.

[Timothy P. Jackson]

I ran a pwck and other than a couple of bad home directories it looked good.

[Patrick Wallek]

So what is the date/time on your /etc/passwd file compared to the current date/time of the system?  Is there a difference?