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Re: How to clean lastlog

Subject: Re: How to clean lastlog
From: Mike Tibor (tibor@lib.uaa.alaska.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 4 14:08:48 2001

On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Mohan wrote:

> Greetings,
> Is there a utility that will clean the "/var/log/lastlog" file?
> It seems to get huge over time? Does such a beast exist?

Files like that need to be rotated. "Cleaning" is usually not a good idea
(assuming you mean either truncating, or deleting and then recreating it).

An easy fix might be to checkout /etc/logrotate.conf (assuming Red Hat)
and create an entry similar to the one for wtmp.

Mike 

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