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- From: Gary.Pfeffer@f1161.n261.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Pfeffer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Phantom file invades /etc
- Message-ID: <726714274.AA31955@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1993 22:54:24 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
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- ML > From: ludwig@wefunk.rent.com (Mitchel F. Ludwig)
- ML >
- ML > john.will@satalink.com (John Will) writes:
- ML >
- ML > > I have developed a somewhat mysterious problem with Linux,
- ML > specifically > a mystery growing file! :-( A binary file appears
- in my
- ML > /etc directory > named wtmp, and it's continuously growing. It's
- also
- ML > flagged by fsck
- ML > Stuff Deleted....
- ML >
- ML > The wtmp file is created and maintained by the accounting
- software
- ML > on the machine. Forgive me if I'm a bit off, but if you don't
- use
- ML > accounting, you might want to remove the adm stuff from your cron
- so
- ML > this file doesn't do anything. Now I might be wrong, this could
- be a
- ML > login stat file, I can't recall, and if so, adm won't help.
-
- It doesnt come from cron. I don't know if its in the kernel or init
- but my solution is a cron entry to truncate it once a week with a
-
- >/etc/wtmp
-
- Gary
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