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From: bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Overflowing wtmp
Message-ID: <713@camco.Celestial.COM>
Date: 31 Jan 91 02:44:35 GMT
References: <92@tdatirv.UUCP> <705@camco.Celestial.COM> <1991Jan29.182320.1489@csn.org>
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In <1991Jan29.182320.1489@csn.org> skwu@spot.Colorado.EDU (WU SHI-KUEI) writes:

>In article <705@camco.Celestial.COM> bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>>
>>This usually is caused by a flakey terminal connection, bad
>>ground or some such.  ......

>If the complaint were about '/etc/utmp', Bill Campbell's analysis might
>well be correct.  However, '/etc/wtmp' will grow forever on every system,
>and

This is correct.  My assumption was that there was a rapidly
growing wtmp file (runaway terminal) rather than normal growth.

I've seen many cases where a cable problem could fill a large
hard disk overnight.
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