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Instead, I would simply remove the contents... cat /dev/null > failedlogin1 cat /dev/null > failedlogin "Cameron" <[email protected]> wrote on 09/29/2009 10:53:33 AM: > Greetings all! > > In an effort to clean up some drive space on my AIX box (inherited > it, and don?t know jack about Unix). One particular > area/folder/drive? is running low on drive space and I?ve found two > files that are *relatively* big to the allocated space (I?ve already > removed a bunch of .bak files). These files are ?failedlogin? and > ?failedlogin1?. The question is....can I just delete these files and > they will recreate when required? I?m guessing that the failedlogin1 > is an older version? > > Any suggestions would be appreciated! > > Cheers, > Cameron > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
