On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Bernardo Carvalho wrote:
> 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?
>
At the prompt, type >/var/log/wtmp
that will truncate the file. The only slightly bad effect is that the
output of the w command (and other similar ones) will be wrong until all
users log out.
> The /var/log/xferlog is also a bit big. Is it the same situation?
>
Basically, yeah.
You might want to look at the logrotate program which will automate a lot
of this for you.
HTH
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