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 modem is turned off, mgetty terminates after about a minute (times out while initializing the modem). Then init respawns mgetty. With each respawn/termination, init logs an event to utmp/wtmp. Adding a "+" to the inittab entry prevents init from filling up wtmp with mgetty related entries: T1:23:respawn:+/sbin/mgetty -x0 -s 38400 ttyS1 -- Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
