Well, how do you go about emptying the file? Jay On 4/4/06, Frank <f.w.kooistra at ocelot.nl> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users >
