[maemo-users] will wtmp grow forever?

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40mb here :)

Nokia770-51:~# ls -lah /var/log/wtmp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        40.6M Apr  3 20:37 /var/log/wtmp


On 4/3/06, Michael P. Lococo <mpl22 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> >> Something odd is going on here, and I'm not sure what.  My own wtmp is
> >> listed as being 195M, which is clearly not true since it's stored on a
> >> 128M flash device.
> >
> > jffs uses transparent compression, so you might actually have files on
> > flash that are bigger than 128MB.
>
> I thought of this after my post, is there is simple method for determining
> "size on disk"?
>
> I think we're approaching a legitimate bug report.  If no one beats be to
> it, or has suggestions about follow up diagnosis that should be performed
> beforehand, I'll file this evening with a proposed solution that wtmp be
> rotated/discarded on a weekly basis.
>
> Mike
>
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