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- From: hm329sc@unidui.uni-duisburg.de (Scheunemann)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: broken pipe after reboot
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 20:17:29 +0100
- Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH
- Lines: 24
- Message-ID: <hm329sc.721509292@unidui>
- References: <trumpet-user.1.0@tom.erib.uni-hannover.de>
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- I had this problem too. I had installed SLS 98.1 and shutdown produced
- this weird output. Also I got this pipe broken message after I included
- TCP/IP and telneted to the loopback device.
-
- For some reason shutdown in the SLS is broken. To cure this get a new
- shutdown. You will find one at tsx-11.mit.edu in
-
- pub/linux/sources/sbin/admutil-1.4.tar.Z
-
- For a fast cure of the pipe broken message:
- This is caused by an entry in your /etc/utmp file. For some reason there
- is an entry for an device which does not exist. (For me it was ttyp0
- which was created by telnet and after the logout it did not exist any
- longer.) So just delete the file /etc/utmp and the pipe broken message
- will have gone away. (It will be replaced by another message about not
- being able to access /etc/utmp. So you better cut your /etc/utmp file to
- a length of 0. For instance cat >/etc/utmp followed by a Control-D. The
- file will then be regenerated after the next reboot.)
-
- Hope this helps
-
- Thomas
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