[SunHELP] Var Partition

Will Mc Donald sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Tue Oct 9 13:20:18 CDT 2001


From: "Will Mc Donald" <wmcdonald at orctel.co.uk>
> Unless you need the information they contain you can safely zero wtmp,
wtmpx
> and utmp and utmpx (used for last, who etc.) if they'll save you any
> appreciable space. Some of our FTP servers log logins in one of these
(wtmpx
> if memory serves) and it grows at quite a rate, unless you're rotating
them
> it pays to keep an eye on them.

And I should probably point out, when I say "zero" I don't mean rm, rm-ing
those files probably isn't a good idea. :)

# :> /var/adm/wtmp
# :> /var/adm/wtmpx

... and so on.




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