Can't rewrite terminal control entry for console

[Nancy Richmond]

Help? Our host system is reporting the message "Can't rewrite terminal control entry for console". Security databases are corrupt.

It is a trusted system that is operating with HP-UX 10.2 (I know it's old, but our hands are tied on this at the moment).

How can I reset the security database?

[Darren Prior]

Hi Nancy,

It's likely that this has been caused by the root filesystem filling up. If you still have a root user logged on, try seeing what's filled up / and see if it can be safely deleted.

If that doesn't fix it I feel that you may have to untrust and retrust the system. This will affect password ageing.

Please also check your patching level - there are a number of vital patches for trusted systems at 10.20 (these got put into 11 as standard.)

regards,

Darren.

[Nancy Richmond]

Went ahead and untrusted and retrusted the system before seeing any replies. This cleared up problem. May have a few unhappy campers due to resetting passwords.

Appreciated the feedback validating what was done. Thanks!