Lastlog help!

[James Gray]

On Wed, 10 May 2006 04:54 am, David Walker wrote:
> 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.

Do you know what lastlog is all about?  "man lastlog" should show you what all 
that "nothing much" is actually logging.

If you really want to disable it without dicking around the config or 
recompiling stuff that expect lastlog to exist etc:
sudo ln -sf /dev/null /var/log/lastlog

No more lastlog :)

Cheers,

James
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