Hey,
You might want to do a:
strings wtmp
to see what's going on here that's causing the logfile to grow so fast.
To get rid of the logfile, try:
cp /dev/null wtmp
as root. If you want to keep the old logfile copy it somewhere else first.
Good luck!
Deke
On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Jann Linder wrote:
> /var/log/wtmp has grown 1.5 meg overnight! how do i pare this down or what do i do
>with it!????!?!?!?!
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> HELP!
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