On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > According to Marcus Brinkmann: > > Would someone mind to explain me and the others what fixed seize files are > > Who mentioned fixed size files?
I guess I did in my first post. After reading your susequent posts, I think that I should explain. Warning, I did not completely grasp your explanation but I think I got the jist of it (this will show in the wording I use). lastlog is an ordered file that saves last information for each user's offset (?) at a particular location, where that location is determined by the offset. If only a few users login and their offset's are close together, then lastlog is a relatively smaall file. However, if a user logs in with an offset vastly different, then lastlog becomes a huge file as reported by ls as it stored this offset at some "distance" from the others and therefore creates a file with a large amount of empty space. I think the idea that lastlog is fixed is that if there is a maximum offset a user can have, then after this offset is logged, the file will always be that size. Is this way off? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer, Kingston, Ontario, Canada <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
