According to Marcus Brinkmann:
Would someone mind to explain me and the others what fixed seize files are
Who mentioned fixed size files?
and why ls shows the wrong information?
Ls shows the right information, but some people interpret it in the wrong way :)
Has already been discussed in this
On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
According to Marcus Brinkmann:
Would someone mind to explain me and the others what fixed seize files are
Who mentioned fixed size files?
I guess I did in my first post. After reading your susequent posts, I
think that I should explain.
According to Colin R. Telmer:
I guess I did in my first post. After reading your susequent posts, I
think that I should explain. Warning, I did not completely grasp your
explanation but I think I got the jist of it (this will show in the
wording I use). lastlog is an ordered file that saves
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 10:00:17PM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Colin R. Telmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After a recent hamm upgrade (two or three days ago) on my machine (pretty
much a single user machine) I noticed that /var/log/faillog and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes:
Probably the struct lastlog is a bit bigger, but remember these files
are mostly empty. The file is probably not taking 18 MB on disk --
try a du lastlog to see how many bytes it is really taking.
You can also use the -s option to ls, which
After a recent hamm upgrade (two or three days ago) on my machine (pretty
much a single user machine) I noticed that /var/log/faillog and
/var/log/lastlog are incredibly large (particularily lastlog):
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1522440 Feb 10 23:03 faillog
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Colin R. Telmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After a recent hamm upgrade (two or three days ago) on my machine (pretty
much a single user machine) I noticed that /var/log/faillog and
/var/log/lastlog are incredibly large (particularily lastlog):
-rw-r--r-- 1 root
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