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From: stu@jpusa1.UUCP (Stu Heiss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Why is wtmp so big? - here's a fix
Message-ID: <1207@jpusa1.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 89 01:37:46 GMT
References: <1226@ispi.UUCP> <413@tabbs.UUCP> <2910@ucrmath.UCR.EDU>
Reply-To: stu@jpusa1.chi.il.us (Stu Heiss,6312,6334,)
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Distribution: usa
Organization: JPUSA - Chicago, IL
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Summary:
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I have the following two lines in my daily cron script to trim wtmp...
# truncate wtmp
(/bin/dd if=/etc/wtmp of=/tmp/wtmp$$ bs=36 count=1 && cp /tmp/wtmp$$ /etc/wtmp && /bin/rm /tmp/wtmp$$) >/dev/null 2>&1
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Stu Heiss - gargoyle.uchicago.edu!jpusa1.uucp!stu, stu@jpusa1.chi.il.us