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From: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Overflowing wtmp
Message-ID: <92@tdatirv.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jan 91 16:57:36 GMT
Reply-To: sarima@tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Organization: Teradata Corp., Irvine
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OK, now for a silly question.

I am the adminsitrator of a SCO Xenix/286 system, and the system administrator
documentation is rather limited.


I have found that my wtmp file tends to grow without bound.
This is annoying.  Is there any clean way to trim it, short of the rather
crude 'cat /dev/null > /etc/wtmp' approach.  (I *do* know about cron,
I just need to know what to put in it).
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uunet!tdatirv!sarima				(Stanley Friesen)