At 11:22 AM 5/5/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Afternoon Everyone:
>
>When I try to ftp into my machine, I'm getting an error message that wtmp
>is corrupted. I did some reading, and it appears the wtmp is record of
>logins to the machine. Is there a safe way to either fix the corruption,
>or can I simply delete the file and will it be created automatically or do
>I need to do something like touch wtmp?
>
>- Mike
>
>
Yes, you can delete it, and create a new one with touch. Then chown it to
root.utmp, and chmod it to 664. (Logrotate does this monthly.)
Mikkel
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