[H-GEN] wtmp

[Luke Grant]

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my question is y would you wish to turn the machine off?

most distributions run usefull cron jobs at about 2am.....and not
just wtmp truncating.

Luke

David Male wrote:
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> > > >  I have a wtmp file in /var/log which is slowly growing,
> > (Do what the nice Sun man said.)
> >
> > Most systems should come with a cron job to truncate it automatically.
> > What system/distribution are you using?  Is something broken?
> >
> 
> The distro is Caldera 2.3 , all nice and graphical and has Star Office
> which has cut my use of NT and 98 to .1%. I start it first thing in
> the morning and turn it off every night.  A response on the Caldera
> list suggests that a) I set up logrotate as a cron job to fix it or b)
> just leave the machine on over night as cron should already be set to
> do this early morning?
> Guess I will try all suggestions ...
> 
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