> -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Bolstridge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 14:32 > To: Bernard Li > Subject: Systemimager issue with lastlog > > Hello. > I read this on the SystemImager mailing list, and I > thought I'd drop you a line > to say why the lastlog is so big. Its not really a bug, more > a left-over from > older days. The lastlog file is actually a sparse file, and > on a 64-bit machine, > will be created to handle 2^ biggest uid. On most Redhat > systems, the biggest > uid (nfsnobody) is something like 4294967294.. and so you can > see that the spare > file appears rather large (1.2TB!). On a 32-bit machine, this > is not so much a > problem as the largest uid will be 2^31. > > One answer is to remove the nfs-utils package, remove > /var/log/lastlog and then > re-create it. Unless you have a lot of users, the new lastlog > will be a lot > smaller. > Another answer is to tell rsync to recognise sparse > files (-S or --sparse). Tar > works similarly. > > And yet another answer: delete the thing and don't back > it up. As far as I can > tell from google, only finger and lastlog use the file anyway. > (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2005-June/ms > g00404.html) > > > I hope this helps, if I start to use systemimager > (which looks really good), > I'll join the mailing list, and post there in future. > > thanks, > > Andy > > > > > > Can you take a look at your image's /var/log/lastlog and > report back how big it is? > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of > Drew Weaver > Sent: Thu 09/03/2006 12:55 > To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Anyone know why si_getimage > would fail on Fedora > Core 4 x64? > > Actually, Rhel4 x_64, rhel3 x_64, centos 4 x_64 all work > fine, this only > happens on fedora4 x_64 heheh. > > > > > > > > ________________________________ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Bernard > Li > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 3:41 PM > To: sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net; > sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [Sisuite-users] Anyone know why si_getimage would fail on > Fedora Core 4 x64? > > > > Hi Drew: > > I think Ben hit it with a nail there... on a Red Hat 64-bit machine > (not confirmed on other 64-bit OSes...) the /var/log/lastlog > is huge... > this apparently is a known bug with the OS and I am not sure if it is > fixed yet. Anyways, in OSCAR, we fixed it by zeroing the > file - take a > look at the following bug we filed for OSCAR: > > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=9368&atid=109368&func > =detail&ai > d=1266306 > > Cheers, > > Bernard > >
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