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From: milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Problems with wtmp not growing without bounds
Message-ID: <10823@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Date: 12 Mar 91 00:49:54 GMT
References: <237@nos850.UUCP>
Reply-To: JEMilburn@lbl.gov (John Milburn)
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
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X-Local-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 91 16:49:54 PST

In article <237@nos850.UUCP> joem@nos850.UUCP (Joe Muller) writes:

>  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 ?

Are you perhaps running accounting? runacct will clear the wtmp
file when it runs.

-jem
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