[H-GEN] wtmp

[Martin Pool]

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> >  I have a wtmp file in /var/log which is slowly growing, I have checked
> > the man page (utmp) which doesnt clarify things much for me. How can I
> > open it and trim its size
> 
> David,
> the way to trim it is to move it to another filename, gzip/{compress using
> favourite unix compression util}, touch /var/log/wtmp and wait for somebody to
> login.

(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?

-- 
Martin

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