Overflowing wtmp
Bill Campbell
bill at camco.Celestial.COM
Thu Jan 31 13:44:35 AEST 1991
In <1991Jan29.182320.1489 at csn.org> skwu at spot.Colorado.EDU (WU SHI-KUEI) writes:
>In article <705 at camco.Celestial.COM> bill at camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>>
>>This usually is caused by a flakey terminal connection, bad
>>ground or some such. ......
>If the complaint were about '/etc/utmp', Bill Campbell's analysis might
>well be correct. However, '/etc/wtmp' will grow forever on every system,
>and
This is correct. My assumption was that there was a rapidly
growing wtmp file (runaway terminal) rather than normal growth.
I've seen many cases where a cable problem could fill a large
hard disk overnight.
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