Overflowing wtmp
Bob Daniel
rad at genco.bungi.com
Thu Jan 24 06:08:42 AEST 1991
In article <92 at tdatirv.UUCP> sarima at tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>
>I have found that my wtmp file tends to grow without bound.
>This is annoying. Is there any clean way to trim it, short of the rather
>crude 'cat /dev/null > /etc/wtmp' approach. (I *do* know about cron,
>I just need to know what to put in it).
First of all, you only need to use '>/etc/wtmp' to clear out the file. To
install it in cron, make this entry in /usr/spool/cron/crontabs/root...
0 2 * * 0 >/etc/wtmp
Restart the cron or just reboot the system. This will clear the file at
2 AM every Sunday.
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