Lastlog help!

Thilo Six T.Six at gmx.de
Tue May 9 23:17:35 UTC 2006


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David Walker wrote the following on 09.05.2006 20:54:
> I am working on an embedded system, and we're trying to preserve as much
> space as we possibly can.  I noticed a file /var/log/lastlog that is
> about 20megs of....well nothing much.  I was wondering if there is a
> simple way to limit the size of it, or make it so nothing (ssh)
> complains to auth.log that it can't write to /var/log/lastlog.
> 
> -- 
> dave
> 

It seems to be upgraded during boot.

$ l /var/log/lastlog
- -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 286K 09.05.06 23:34 /var/log/lastlog
                        ^^^

bye Thilo
- --
i am on Ubuntu 2.6 KDE
- - some friend of mine

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