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- From: ludwig@wefunk.rent.com (Mitchel F. Ludwig)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Phantom file invades /etc
- Message-ID: <THgywB2w165w@wefunk.rent.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 12:28:16 GMT
- References: <649.1189.uupcb@satalink.com>
- Organization: WEFUNK, the Mothership Connection. East Brunswick, NJ
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- john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:
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- > I have developed a somewhat mysterious problem with Linux, specifically
- > a mystery growing file! :-( A binary file appears in my /etc directory
- > named wtmp, and it's continuously growing. It's also flagged by fsck
-
- Stuff Deleted....
-
- The wtmp file is created and maintained by the accounting software
- on the machine. Forgive me if I'm a bit off, but if you don't use
- accounting, you might want to remove the adm stuff from your cron so
- this file doesn't do anything. Now I might be wrong, this could be a
- login stat file, I can't recall, and if so, adm won't help.
-
- Wasn't that helpful? :-)
-
- Mitch
-