I believe you actually want to get rid of /var/run/utmp, not wtmp. wtmp holds login information, but not the info on who is currently logged in. utmp is the file that holds that info. As I said in a previous message, I don't recommend overwriting this file while your system is live because some very weird things will happen if you do. -- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Luke Davis wrote: > Do you need to do it on delay, then log out before it hits? That is: > > (sleep 10; cat /dev/null > /var/wtmp) & > exit > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Adam Myrow wrote: > > > The only way to get rid of that is to zero out /var/wtmp and log out of > > all vertial terminals. You could also reboot, but why bother when you can > > fix it without doing that? The magic command is "cat /dev/null > > >/var/wtmp." Catting /dev/null over any file will make it empty but leave > > its ownership and permissions intact, so this is the best way to empty out > > a file that the system relies on. Good luck. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
