On Tuesday, September 29, 1998 9:07 AM, Bernardo Carvalho
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> Hi,
>
> My /var/log/wtmp file is a bit large and I want to reset it... from
the man
> pages I figured that if I delete it it won't be automatically created
again.
> What should I do?
You could do something like
tail -20 /var/log/wtmp > /var/log/wtmp
That will effectively "chop off" all but the last 20 lines of the file.
>
> The /var/log/xferlog is also a bit big. Is it the same situation?
>
> []s
> bernardo
>
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