/usr/adm/wtmp file

mike.stefanik mike at bria.UUCP
Fri May 10 08:15:32 AEST 1991


In an article, looi at sutro.SFSU.EDU writes:
|I'd like some suggestions on how to trim/prune the ever growing wtmp
|file. Is there any built-in AIX tool that helps to accomplish this?
|Thanks in advance.

Read about the fwtmp command; in short, it will dump a utmp file to text,
which can then be trimmed with tail, and then read it back again.

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