Login problem

[prasathc]

Hi all

When ever i login to a C class machine it showing a error like

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

what could be the problem, can you please gide me

Thanks in advance

[Frank Li]

Hi

It seems that the file "/etc/utmp" is missing ! You can telnet/rlogin to that machine and touch that file and reboot your machine . It wil be okay.

Frank

[Rainer von Bongartz · Accepted solution]

Your file /etc/utmp is corrupt or missing.
telnet to the box; and ls -l /etc/utmp.
if it exists emty it by doing cat /dev/null > /etc/utmp.

if there is no /etc/utmp do touch /etc/utmp.

with this done you should reboot and the problem is gone.

[Shahul]

Hi

I faced this once. This is nothing but corrupted or missing /etc/utmp. The solution is rlogin to the workstation and do this

#touch /etc/utmp

Its permission is 644 and owner is root:root.

Then reboot the system. Now ur problem is killed.



Best of luck

Shahul

[prasathc]

Thank you guys, now the problem was solved, and i am able to login perfectly.

I followd Rainer von bongartz, i think it will help,
and once again thanks Rainer

bye and take care