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[Paula J. Lindsay]

Thank you ALL!  I was successful.

Cleber P. de Souza wrote:

>Just remember to set rotate to the value of months you need to maintain.
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>On 8/9/07, Bill Tangren <bjt at usno.navy.mil> wrote:
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>>Paula J. Lindsay wrote:
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>>>Hi everyone,
>>>We have an issue here at the institute.  Our rh ws 4's and fedora's are
>>>running on instruments and the lab uses the file
>>>wtmp to bill the users for the time they are spending on these
>>>instruments.  The problem is, at the end of the month,
>>>the wtmp file deletes itself.  We need to get it set up to copy to a
>>>file, i.e.,
>>>
>>>wtmp=this month
>>>wtmp1=last month
>>>wtmp2=the month before
>>>
>>>does anyone know how I can do this?  Any advice/suggestions/opinions
>>>will be generously welcome.
>>>Many thanks in advance.
>>>Paula
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>My /etc/logrotate.conf rotates the wtmp file. Try doing that:
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>># no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
>>/var/log/wtmp {
>>     monthly
>>     create 0644 root utmp
>>     rotate 1
>>}
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