Thank you.
On Fri, 5 May 2000, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 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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