Overflowing wtmp
Root Boy Jim
rbj at uunet.UU.NET
Wed Jan 30 16:49:15 AEST 1991
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
>of every month and trim it so only the most recent 2500 records are
>retained. It comes with a manual page, makefile, and one C program.
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??
>John Donahue, Senior Partner | UUCP: ucrmath!alchemy!{bbs, gumby} | The Future
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