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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Overflowing wtmp
Keywords: solution, C, mail me for a copy
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.124501.6670@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 91 12:45:01 GMT
References: <705@camco.Celestial.COM> <338@alchemy.UUCP> <120587@uunet.UU.NET>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <120587@uunet.UU.NET> rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>In article <338@alchemy.UUCP> bbs@alchemy.UUCP (BBS Administration) writes:
>>a copy of my "wsize" program...
>>... I run it as a "root" crontask on the 1st and 15th
>
>Tsk tsk, overkill. Howabout a range of 2000 to 3000 records? Try
>
>		#! /bin/sh
>		cd /usr/adm
>		split wtmp
>		set x?? /dev/null /dev/null /dev/null /dev/null
>		shift `expr $# - 3`
>		cat $* > xxx
>		mv xxx wtmp
>		rm -f x??

 Hey.  That's neat.  But what do we do if we have a 'split' that wants to
break the file based on lines, and a 'wtmp' that doesn't contain lines?

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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