use of utmp & wtmp

From: Hisham Khalifa Al Saad <webmaster_at_admin.uob.bh>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:05:04 +0300

Hi Managers,

Can anyone tell me what is the effect of these two files (utmp and wtmp)
in
/usr/var/adm on a DU 4.0B ?
By mistake i have deleted them and after a (#shutdown -r now), utmp got
created automatically but not the wtmp.

Thanks in advance.

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