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From: jwag@moose.asd.sgi.com (Chris Wagner)
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Subject: Re: wtmp removal unwanted.
Message-ID: <1990Nov15.163316.14823@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 15 Nov 90 16:33:16 GMT
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In article <9011141926.AA19056@karron.med.nyu.edu>,
karron@KARRON.MED.NYU.EDU writes:
> 
> I like to know who has logged on my machine, and I want to keep my wtmp file
> for at least a month or so.
> 
> I removed the garbage collection stuff in crontabs, but the file is
> removed/truncated at odd times, usually during the day. I have
> the accounting turned on. I am using IRIX 3.3.1
> 

Accounting is the culprit - check ~line 157 of /usr/lib/acct/runacct -
you could modify this to save the wtmp file to a archive version

Chris