On Thu, 2016-07-14 at 15:40 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > Hey, folks. I just noticed something a bit odd in the behaviour of > /var/log/lastlog . IIRC, this is supposed to be a symlink that's > pointed to the most recent log file to be updated (somehow or other). > However, in openQA tests and also on my workstation, I've seen it be - > seemingly - an extremely large regular file which doesn't actually take > up as much space as it should. For e.g., right now this is how it shows > on my Rawhide workstation: > > [adamw@adam openqa_fedora (freeipa-password %)]$ ls -lh /var/log/lastlog > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 43G Jul 14 13:19 /var/log/lastlog > > But note the output of du: > > 4.2G /var/log > > of which 4.1G is /var/log/journal . So it seems the file isn't 'really' > taking up any space at all. > > Anyone know what's going on? Oh, never mind, found http://www.noah.org/wiki/Lastlog_is_gigantic whic h explains the size issue at least. I'm sure it used to be a symlink, though? Oh well. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
