Richard Humphrey <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thursday, 20 March 2003 07:52:
> What does /var/lastlog report on and would it be possible for me to > somehow truncate this log file so that it only grows to 5 MB or so? I > noticed that it is growing upwards of 20 MB and don't really want > that. > > Richard Humphrey Hi Richard, try .. man lastlog I was under the impression that the file did not grow, unless you were adding users, or at least it stabilises to a fixed size determined by the highest uid. I suspect you might have an account recording a login with a high uid. That will extend the file, possibly by a large amount, but the intervening empty space is not necessarily allocated on the disk. Without looking at the source code, I think the file format is fixed-length records, indexed by uid. It is certainly not a sequential time-series like a typical log file. That's why it has no entry in logrotate, it is meant to hang around forever. Cameron. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
