Q83: [SunOS] Utmp/motd not updated on SunOS-4.1.3_U1?


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Q.
[SunOS] Utmp/motd not updated on SunOS-4.1.3_U1?

I'm finding that login(1) only updates lastlog, leaving utmp and wtmp alone.

A.
This happens when you don't have a ttytab entry for the dial-in device, or if a device has multiple links and the reference in ttytab is not the first one in /dev. See also ttyslot(3V).


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Matthias Apitz / guru@softcon.de ; (07:34:58 AM 01/27/97)