Re: Last log.

Michael Slater (slaterm@excel.tnet.com.au)
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:31:18 +0800 (WST)


Their is no crontab Entry that trims it. Thats the first thing i checked.

Michael

On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Mike Frisch wrote:

> 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 ?
>
> Look in /etc/crontab for the cron job which trims the wtmp file.
>
> Mike.
>
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