[H-GEN] wtmp

[James McPherson - Customer Technical Support Engineer]

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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.

You really shouldn't try to open and trim it because you're liable to get a 
corrupt file instead.

cheers,
James C. McPherson
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Customer Technical Support Engineer      828 Pacific Highway 
Sun Microsystems Australia Pty Ltd       Gordon NSW 2072
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