Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: keeping wtmp
Message-ID: <1298@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca>
Date: 8 Feb 91 04:19:52 GMT
References: <194.27ac936a@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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In article <194.27ac936a@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu> lubkt@vax1.cc.lehigh.edu writes:
>Is it true that the accounting program is resetting my wtmp?

Probably.  The System V accounting certainly does, and the Sun accounting
is presumably summarizing it too.

>I want retain wtmp records for a period longer than a day.

Study the accounting software - it's probably already keeping
wtmp records in a more compressed form.
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