On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:55:55PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On my Woody system, there's nothing in /etc/logrotate.d
> except the file for the base-config. Yet, looking at
> /var/log shows that syslog, messages, daemon.log user.log,
> and other stuff are clearly being rotated.
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 10:45:06AM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
> None of my machines have "chkwtmp", but it turns out that
> mgetty is what's causing the huge wtmp files. I don't know if
> it's init or mgetty itself that's causing the problem.
For the sake of posterity, here's the deal:
If the
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 08:38:25PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > on the first, check the output of chkwtmp.
None of my machines have "chkwtmp", but it turns out that
mgetty is what's causing the huge wtmp files. I don't know if
it's init or mgetty itself that's causing the problem.
--
Grant
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 05:09:59PM -0700, ben wrote:
> > On my Woody system, there's nothing in /etc/logrotate.d
> > except the file for the base-config. Yet, looking at
> > /var/log shows that syslog, messages, daemon.log user.log,
> > and other stuff are clearly being rotated.
>
On Friday 26 April 2002 12:55 pm, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I've got two questions (that may be related):
>
> 1) Why are is my wtmp file so huge? I've got a Woody system
> that I installed about two weeks ago. I log into it a few
> times a day, and the wtmp file is up to over 13MB in 16
>
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 02:55:55PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 1) Why are is my wtmp file so huge? I've got a Woody system
> that I installed about two weeks ago. I log into it a few
> times a day, and the wtmp file is up to over 13MB in 16
> days.
>
> On the RH7.2 system on
I've got two questions (that may be related):
1) Why are is my wtmp file so huge? I've got a Woody system
that I installed about two weeks ago. I log into it a few
times a day, and the wtmp file is up to over 13MB in 16
days.
On the RH7.2 system on which I do most of my work,
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