On Fri, 2016-07-15 at 10:55 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 07/14/2016 03:42 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > Oh, never mind, found http://www.noah.org/wiki/Lastlog_is_gigantic whic > > h explains the size issue at least. I'm sure it used to be a symlink, > > though? Oh well. > > > I've never seen it as a symlink. There's no reason for there to be > multiple versions as it's not a file that would get rotated. > > Oh, and mine is bigger than yours. ;-) > > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 468G Jul 15 10:53 /var/log/lastlog > > It's a freeipa system, so there are big uids involved.
I think at some point it was a link to, like, /var/log/wtmp or something like that. I could be dreaming it, I always have brain cramps when it comes to that file. And yes, now you mention it, of course it's obvious that the file will be bigger when large UIDs are in play, but I was missing that - it explains some things that didn't add up... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[email protected]
