Thanks Ralph. What I have learned is that this file wtmp is only 12Kb long, so
not worth worrying about.
Cheers,
Peter
Oh, I have decided to delete stacer and just use Gkrellm
P2
On 14/01/2025 20:22, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
Hardinfo gives me a list of every time I have booted the computer, and
as I turn it off every night it's quite a long list. Anybody know how
to clean out that list?
I'd use last(1) for that and
https://github.com/hardinfo2/hardinfo2/blob/master/modules/computer/boots.c,
which may be similar to the code you're running, does too. It runs
‘last -Fw’ and looks for ‘system boot’.
Perhaps you have ‘force all details’ turned on so get a long list,
or the version you're running doesn't otherwise have the limit of
twenty entries.
last(1) points to wtmp(5). You'll probably find /var/log/wtmp* matches
more than one file which suggests something on your system is rotating
the current one out of the way occasionally to create a new one.
Here, /etc/logrotate.conf has
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
minsize 1M
rotate 1
}
but your system may do it differently.
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