On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 07:20:18PM +0100, Will Mc Donald wrote: > 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 # > [ file ] usually suffices. Why do you use the colon at the beginning of the command? Nicholas