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 > days. > > On the RH7.2 system on which I do most of my work, the wtmp > file never gets past 250K for a whole month. > > 2) On the RH system, the logrotate config files for most > things (except wtmp) are in /etc/logrotate.d which is > included by /etc/logrotate.conf. > > 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. > > Since /etc/logrotate.conf only rotates wtmp and btmp, and > /etc/logrotate.d doesn't control anything except > installer.* files, where is logrotate getting instructions > from for rotating the other files?
on the first, check the output of chkwtmp. on the second, check out /etc/logrotate.conf. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
