syslog.log message

[chad_c]

Hi. We are receiving the following message for constantly in our HPUX 11.11 NNM\OVO server. The message first appeared in Sept and continues up to today. Can anyone shed some light on what the message is referring to and what we need to do to rememdy it.

Sep 29 16:43:52 txovo remshd[1263]: wtmp:open: /var/adm/wtmp Value too large to be stored in data type

Regards,
Chad

[Calandrello]

Which the size of the archive?

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi Chad,

# cat /var/adm/wtmp | fwtmp > /tmp/data

Edit /tmp/data to remove old or dated information as desired.

# cat /tmp/data | fwtmp -ic > /tmp/data_new

# mv /tmp/data_new /var/adm/wtmp

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[spex]

Hi Chad,

Just to add to the previous response, the absolute path to fwtmp is /usr/sbin/acct/fwtmp. /usr/sbin/acct is not in $PATH, by default.

PCS

[chad_c]

ran the following

cat /var/adm/wtmp | fwtmp > /tmp/data

However, when I go to vi /tmp/data to remove old or dated information as desired, i get the following:

"data" Value too large to be stored in data type

How do I edit /tmp/data to remove old or deleted information?

Also, there is a /tmp/data.tar file present?

Regards,
Chad

[chad_c]

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