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From: joem@nos850.UUCP (Joe Muller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Problems with wtmp not growing without bounds
Keywords: finite infinite accounting file
Message-ID: <237@nos850.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 91 19:54:22 GMT
Organization: US Naval Ordnance Station  Louisville, KY
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  The title says it all.  Anybody have any ideas as to why the file
/etc/wtmp on our 9000/850 does not grow without bounds ?  Typically
it gets no larger then 200 bytes, but it still contains the most
recent login information.  As far as I know, there are no crons
out there that are cutting it down to size.

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|  Joseph Muller                      |  "Science is easily explained by the 
|  UUCP: ...!uunet!coplex!nos850!joem | laws of nature and physics. Magic; by 
|  BITNET: JAMULL01@ULKYVX.BITNET     | the infinite potential of the mind and
|                                     | the soul.  Unix however, works in 
|  Naval Ordinance Station, Lou. Ky.  | strange and mysterious ways."  -Me