Re: Decreasing size of wtmp file

[Hal Burgiss <hburgiss bellsouth net>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 11:09:07PM -0500, Bill Johnson wrote:
> I am new to Linux / Unix, so forgive my stupid question.  I ran out of
> space in my / directory, and in researching why, discovered that messages,
> boot.log, and a few other files had grown to rather large proportions.  I
> cleaned them up via
> 
> tail messages > messages
> 
> Seemed to work ok.  However, wtmp is huge, and it does not have the same
> format as these other log files.  How do I reduce its size?  Same way?  
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.

If you are not running 24*7, you should run some of the cron jobs
manually. This stuff is normally taken care of by 'logrotate' via cron
and can be configured to your liking. If you look around in /etc for
cron* and logrotate* files (and directories), you can get a feel for how
this can work automatically.

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Hal B
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