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On Sun, 4 Jun 2000, Philip S Tellis wrote:
> I have this huge file in /var/log called wtmp
>
> What is it? What does it do?
man wtmp(5)
> Can I archive/delete it? It is 8 MB in size.
yes but create a new one unless you don't care about logging.
>
> (Redhat 6.0)
Use logrotate, set to weekly. In /etc/logrotate.conf
- cnb.
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