{S} wtmp

From: Becki Kain <beckers_at_josephus.furph.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 11:15:59 -0400 (EDT)

thanks for the quick answer from Owen Connolly <ojc_at_dataway.com>:


Hi Becki,

The easiest way is to just - cat /dev/null > wtmp - this resets it to zero
bytes without actually removing it completely, therefore it won't screw up the
system accounting...

ciao for now,


ojc

Becki Kain wrote:

> how do you correctly get rid of a large wtmp file? move the old and touch
> a new one? I just wanted to make certain before I screwed something up
>
> thanks
>
> beckers
>
> Becki Kain
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