Var/adm/utmpx: value too large for defined datatype

Hi,
On a Solaris 10 machine I cannot use last command to view login history etc. It tells something like "/var/adm/utmpx: value too large for defined datatype".
The size of /var/adm/utmpx is about 2GB.
I tried renaming the file to utmpx.0 and create a new file using head utmpx.0 > utmpx but after that the last command does not show any output. The new utmpx file seems to be updating with new info though... as seen from file last modified time.
Is there a standard procedure to recreate a new utmpx file once it grows too largs?? I couldnt find much in man pages
Thanks in advance for any help

The easiest way is to cat /dev/null to utmpx - this will clear out the file to 0 bytes but leave it intact.
from the /var/adm/ directory:
cat /dev/null > /var/adm/utmpx
Some docs suggest going to single user mode to do this, or stopping the utmp service daemon first, but I'm not positive this is necessary. Perhaps someone has input on that aspect. I've always just sent /dev/null to utmpx and wtmpx without a problem.
BTW - I believe "last" works with wtmpx, and "who" works with utmpx.

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LTRIM(RTRIM(LNAME)) LNAME,
LTRIM(RTRIM(EMAIL_ADDRESS)) EMAIL_ADDRESS,
EMAIL_VALID,
PASSWORD
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Can anyone of you fix this one.
PASSWORD
ERROR at line 14:
ORA-01401: inserted value too large for column
Thanks in Advance
Sudarshan

Additionally I found this matrix, which explains your problem:
UTF8 (1 to 3 bytes) AL32UTF8 (1 to 4 bytes)
MIN MAX MIN MAX
CHAR 2000 666 2000 500
VARCHAR2 4000 1333 4000 1000 */
For column PASSWORD the maximum length is used (4000). UTF8 uses maximal 3 bytes for a character, while AL32UTF8 may use up to 4 characters. So a column defined in AL32UTF8 may contain characters, which do not fit in a corresponding UTF8 character.

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