Overflowing wtmp
Neil Rickert
rickert at mp.cs.niu.edu
Wed Jan 30 23:45:01 AEST 1991
In article <120587 at uunet.UU.NET> rbj at uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>In article <338 at alchemy.UUCP> bbs at alchemy.UUCP (BBS Administration) writes:
>>a copy of my "wsize" program...
>>... I run it as a "root" crontask on the 1st and 15th
>
>Tsk tsk, overkill. Howabout a range of 2000 to 3000 records? Try
>
> #! /bin/sh
> cd /usr/adm
> split wtmp
> set x?? /dev/null /dev/null /dev/null /dev/null
> shift `expr $# - 3`
> cat $* > xxx
> mv xxx wtmp
> rm -f x??
Hey. That's neat. But what do we do if we have a 'split' that wants to
break the file based on lines, and a 'wtmp' that doesn't contain lines?
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Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert at cs.niu.edu>
Northern Illinois Univ.
DeKalb, IL 60115 +1-815-753-6940
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