Rotating wtmp

Poluri, Ramachandra Rao rp230050 at ncr.com
Wed Jun 28 22:13:37 UTC 2006


Don't we have a command to do so..forcing rotation..

-Ramachandra. 

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Subject: Re: Rotating wtmp

cp /var/log/wtmp /var/log/wtmp.old
cp /dev/null /var/log/wtmp

if yopu don't want to make a copy.

On 6/28/06, Poluri, Ramachandra Rao <rp230050 at ncr.com> wrote:
> I want to force the rotation of wtmp right now..
> How can we do it??
>
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>
> /var/log/wtmp {
>    monthly
>    create 0664 root utmp
>    rotate 1
> }
>
> in the /etc/logrotate.conf
>
> On 6/28/06, Poluri, Ramachandra Rao <rp230050 at ncr.com> wrote:
> > Frnds..
> >
> > How do we rotate /var/log/wtmp ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > -Ramachandra.
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