hi, by mistake i have done >utmp on /etc/utmp.So when i try to login it says no utmp entry .try tom login from the lowest level shell.Pls let me know the solution for this.
hi, try cp /usr/newconfig/etc/inittab /etc/inittab this may not solve, probably to clear up, you will have to reboot. hope you can reboot, if not, please inform.
Are you sure your problem come from your error ? utmp file is use to contain "logged users onto the system" (see man page of utmp) so if utmp is empty you can logon without problem. I try with a readonly /etc/utmp : you can login but who commands can't works... Are you sure your login scripts don't use information or commands using /etc/utmp ? Another way is to stop and restart logging utilities : cd /usr/sbin/acct ; ./shutacct; ./startup but I think it's not really the matter.
Herve - i think the problem was that /etc/utmp contained the string "utmp", rather than being empty - this certainly gave me the error when I tested.
/usr/bin/ksh -i gives you a shell that ignores a lot of signals, enabling you to login under certain error conditions. It's way down the bottom of "man ksh"
Ok it seems to be the problem : when utmp is "unreadable" (if utmp is not structured like utmp.h specifications) you can't insert any entries. Shells refused to start in this case.
I didn't know this option for ksh.... Thx
I think that to resolve the problem it's possible to delete /etc/utmp and create a new empty one. But the problem is that without a reboot it's impossible to know who is logged on the system (who doesn't work for example). Don't if it's important but I think it's better to restart the system as soon as possible.
