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From: bbs@alchemy.UUCP (BBS Administration)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Overflowing wtmp
Summary: Solution offered, request program
Keywords: solution, C, mail me for a copy
Message-ID: <338@alchemy.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 91 01:21:59 GMT
References: <1991Jan29.182320.1489@csn.org> <92@tdatirv.UUCP> <705@camco.Celestial.COM>
Reply-To: bbs@alchemy.UUCP (BBS Administration)
Organization: Alchemy Software Designs
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About a year ago or so, someone posed this problem to the net. I decided
I was bored and wrote a program to handle just this problem. I think it's
pretty portable but I wrote it on my SCO Xenix '386 system so you may
want to examine the source before using it. I won't post it here since
this is not a "source code" newsgroup, but if anyone would like to
have a copy of my "wsize" program, just send me mail and it shall be
yours (it's quite small). I run it as a "root" crontask on the 1st and 15th
of every month and trim it so only the most recent 2500 records are
retained. It comes with a manual page, makefile, and one C program.

Cheers,

-- John

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