Re: Last log.

Michael Brennen (mbrennen@fni.com)
Thu, 9 Jan 1997 20:06:21 -0600 (CST)


Check the /etc/crontab file. I think you will find all kinds of things in
there you may want to delete. Zygo Blaxell posted some time ago about the
risk of root running automatic deletes from the temp directories, also.

-- Michael (mbrennen@fni.com)

On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Michael Slater wrote:

> Sorry if this not the right list for this question.
> I am running Linux Red-Hat 3.03, with shadow-mk installed.
> Every night at around 2:45 am, Linux seems to erase the wtmp file.
> I used to be able issue the last command, and would get a long list of
> past logins. What is different with Redhat that would cause this ?