Dear Managers,
Yesterday two of my DEC 3000/300XL's suddenly started
displaying the message "Terminal is Disabled - See System
Administrator". No one (not even root) could log in directly to the
console. Since telnet access was still possible, I tried various
things and finally discovered that moving /etc/auth/system/ttys.db to
ttys.db.bak worked. Apparently this file is the terminal database and
it has become corrupt.
My problem is that the system does attempt to write to this
file under certain circumstances (for example, a user whose account
had become locked tried to log in this morning and the system
complained it couldn't log the information). How does one recreate it
(presumably from /etc/auth/system/ttys)?
Larry
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Larry Griffith Dept. of Computer & Info Science
larry_at_garfield.wsc.mass.edu Westfield State College
(413) 572-5294 Westfield, MA 01086 USA
PGP public key available at:
http://garfield.wsc.mass.edu/dcis/griffith.html
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Received on Fri Sep 20 1996 - 22:03:26 NZST