In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Colin R. Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After a recent hamm upgrade (two or three days ago) on my machine (pretty
>much a single user machine) I noticed that /var/log/faillog and
>/var/log/lastlog are incredibly large (particularily lastlog): 
>
>-rw-r--r--   1 root     root      1522440 Feb 10 23:03 faillog
>-rw-r--r--   1 root     root     18523020 Feb 11 09:18 lastlog

Probably the struct lastlog is a bit bigger, but remember these files
are mostly empty. The file is probably not taking 18 MB on disk --
try a "du lastlog" to see how many bytes it is really taking.

Mike.
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