I have attempted to2find answers to this question:
When logging into tty01 the system will take 5 to 10 seconds to display each character typed. Each other terminal will login correctly and display correctly2but not the first terminal. Rebooting was suggested on several sites and this has been tried on several occasions. What seem to first start the problem or wzat preceeded the problem was the error "no utmp entry , must login from lowest level shell" I have zero'd out files /etc/wtmpx, /etc/utmp, /etc/utmpx/, and /etc/wtmp.
Any suggestions on terminal slowness or were to look?
You may have to restore the zereo'd out files from the:
/var/opt/K/SCO/Unix/ directory
type l and look for your SCO version number. Change directories to that one and then to the etc directory under the SCO version. I would create a sym link from this file to the /etc directory.
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Example using Version 5.0.0:
cd /var/opt/K/SCO/Unix
typing l shows:
a directory called 5.0.0Cl (capital "C")
I type cd 5.0.0Cl/etc to get to the correct directory
Type ln -s (full path name of the source file) (full pathname of the target)
ln -s /var/opt/K/SCO/Unix/5.0.0Cl/etc/wtmp /etc/wtmp
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Make SURE you first copy the zereo'd files in the /etc directory BEFORE doing the symbolic link. If the file is in the /etc directory, the link will not work. Also, you can make sure the owner and group information is correct.