A.P. Lawrence

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OSR5 FAQ

What causes "No utmp entry, must login from lowest level shell"

Probably corruption in one of the log files /etc/utmp, /etc/wtmp, /etc/utmpx, or /etc/wtmpx. You can zero them out by:

> /etc/utmp
> /etc/utmpx
> /etc/wtmp
> /etc/wtmpx

and then rebooting.

Robert Bailin says that he's seen the corruption caused by /etc/cleanup being run by cron; see I need information from "last", but most of it is gone!

An anonymous visitor here pointed out:

There is a way to fix it remotely.
Make some space on hardrive using ftp connection.
Create empty files and overwrite those 4 files
with it.You should be able to connect via login now. :)

Comments /SCOFAQ/FAQ_scotec2no_utmp.html
FAQScoTecTwonoutmp :

---October 11, 2004



---October 21, 2004

These files became corrupted on me when root became full.

---November 25, 2004


There is a way to fix it remotly.
Make some space on hardrive using ftp connection.
Create empty files and overwrite those 4 files with it.
You should be able to connect via login now. :)





---December 6, 2004

I had the same problem, very large email in root, was able to fix it by deleting that file and performing the operation as above, thanks

Fri Nov 3 00:29:20 2006: Subject:   anonymous
If the root is full and we cannot log on from the console or remotely, how do we clean up the free up some space?



Please advise.

Fri Nov 3 03:17:15 2006: Subject:   TonyLawrence
You probably CAN log in. See http://aplawrence.com/Unixart/nospace.html



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