On Monday 03 April 2006 18:28, Alessandro Pasotti wrote: > Nokia770-51:~# ll /var/log/wtmp > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15105024 Apr 3 18:20 /var/log/wtmp > > it's still 15Megs after one week of (mis)use. > > Did I did something wrong? > > Do you think it is safe to echo ">/var/log/wtmp ? It contains the login records. when you ask information about current login's, boots etc. the data is collected from utmp / wtmp I think it is safe to zero the contents: you looose the information about the login history : best practice is to make a copy and than empty it. as a test i emptied my system's wtmp :-) On a desktop system -- groetjes Frank
