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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Overflowing wtmp
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Date: 12 Mar 91 22:03:02 GMT
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>	cat /dev/null > /etc/wtmp
>
>is as good as any other.

No it's not. The best way to zero a file is ":>file", which
works under sh, ksh, and csh. ">file" doesn't work under csh.
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