Re: Last log.

Michael Slater (slaterm@excel.tnet.com.au)
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:32:13 +0800 (WST)


Thats the first thing i checked, and their is nothing that trims wtmp.

Michael Slater
slaterm@tnet.com.au
http://www.tnet.com.au/~slaterm

On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Michael Brennen wrote:

>
> 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 ?
>