Openssh Solaris problem writing /var/adm/wtmp

[Frank Beckmann]

> Which version?

ssh -V
OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7e 25 Oct 2004

> 
> > Apr 27 12:06:03 systemx sshd[869]: [ID 847 auth.info] wtmp_write:
> problem
> > writing /var/adm/wtmp: No such file or directory
> 
> Does config.h have HAVE_SETUTXENT and HAVE_PUTUTXLINE?
/* Define to 1 if you have the `setutxent' function. */
#define HAVE_SETUTXENT 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the `pututxline' function. */
#define HAVE_PUTUTXLINE 1

An other thing...
we have since Sunday (the day of the paket switch) some defunct´s in the
process list

ptree 24344
17618 /usr/sbin/sshd
  24342 /usr/sbin/sshd -R
    24344 <defunct>
root at system# truss -aefp 24342
24342:  psargs: /usr/sbin/sshd -R
24342:  read(7, 0xFFBEEE88, 4)          (sleeping...)
24342:  signotifywait()                 (sleeping...)
24342:  door_return(0x00000000, 0, 0x00000000, 0) (sleeping...)
24342:  lwp_sema_wait(0xFEB0DE60)       (sleeping...)
24342:  lwp_cond_wait(0xFEC834E8, 0xFEC834F8, 0xFEC7CD80) (sleeping...)


They grow very slow... random... 
I grep the defuncts, after a while there are more or less defuncts.
BUT the base value of defuncts are more after a while (like a stack), it
grow..

That is only a problem on the big Systems (like E15k)

Frank

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