no utmx entry - login not possible

[Holger Koch]

I try to login to Host and get always following message.

No utmpx entry. You must exec "login" from the lowest level "shell".
Connection closed by foreign host.

I can not login to check the problem also not from console. It seems the
/var partition is full
What can I do?

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Holger Koch

SIEMENS AG
mailto:Holge...@icn.siemens.de
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[Holger Koch]

Thank you.

I get an login via Single User Mode from OPBM with
boot -s
.

I saw that the wtmpx file is about 167 MB!!!!
Why is this file growing? Can I disable the writing into wtmpx file or do I
have to delete it every night or week?

Thanks in advance

cyp...@punk.net schrieb im Beitrag
<FUrH8.38028$Db5.11...@typhoon.nyc.rr.com>...
> Holger Koch <holge...@icn.siemens.de> wrote:
> #
> # It seems the /var partition is full
> # What can I do?
>
> Clean out Der Gunk.
>
> Find low-hanging fruit using:
>
> find /var -mount -size +4000 -ls
>
> (All files above 2Mb)
>

[Marvin]

In article <01c20330$2d44eac0$921d3693@bsw02527>,
holge...@icn.siemens.de says...

> Thank you.
>
> I get an login via Single User Mode from OPBM with
> boot -s
> .
>
> I saw that the wtmpx file is about 167 MB!!!!
> Why is this file growing? Can I disable the writing into wtmpx file or do I
> have to delete it every night or week?

Don't know if I remember well, but within SAC/SAF you can disable
writing to that file. See sacadm and pmadm man pages.

[Birger Blixt]

cyp...@punk.net wrote:
>
> Holger Koch <holge...@icn.siemens.de> wrote:

> # Thank you.
> #
> # I get an login via Single User Mode from OPBM with
> # boot -s
> # .
> #
> # I saw that the wtmpx file is about 167 MB!!!!
> # Why is this file growing? Can I disable the writing into wtmpx file or do I
> # have to delete it every night or week?
>
> Maybe you have a lot of ftp jobs running.
>
> Try typing "last | head" and see what's there.
>
> Figure out how often it needs cleaning up.
>
> Don't delete it! Use: cp /dev/null /var/adm/wtmpx
Or copy utmpx to wtmpx so current sessions don't get lost. cp
/var/adm/{u,w}tmpx
Holger should also look at /var/crash/<hostname> for _BIG_ files, to remove.
/bb

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