Today's CVS trouble (HP-UX 10.20)

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Lutz Jaenicke wrote:

> I have just updated some hosts to todays CVS version of OpenSSH portable,
> now flagged as 2.9.9p1.
> 
> I now find the following error messages in my logfiles:
> Sep 25 12:16:38 ws01 sshd[17610]: wtmp_get_entry: read of /var/adm/wtmp failed:
> Bad file number
> Sep 25 12:17:11 ws01 sshd[17659]: wtmp_get_entry: read of /var/adm/wtmp failed:
> No such device or address
> 
> These do not occur with 2.9p2. On the host in question I have been running
> last weeks (Thursday?) CVS without trouble. After distributing the latest
> CVS version to other hosts (previously running 2.9p2) I also see the same
> error messages popping up.
> In the Changelog I don't see any hint on what to look for. Any hints?

I can't see what could be causing this - nothing has changed in this area
recently.

-d

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