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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!bullwinkle!steved
- From: steved@essex.com
- Subject: how to purge wtmp file
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.174653.3657@essex.com>
- Sender: steved@essex.com (Steve Dieringer)
- Reply-To: steved@essex.com
- Organization: Essex Information Systems, Inc.
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 17:46:53 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- I just noticed my /private/wtmp file today (and some other fairly large files
- in /private/adm). These seem to grow indefinitely....
-
- I reviewed the man pages but didn't find an easy way to manage these files, but
- in poking around in /private/tmp I found the "monthly" and "weekly" shell
- scripts. I ran these manually and they seemed to pare down the nasty files (my
- machine is not networked, so I don't need all the otherwise neat history in
- these files) Does anyone use these shell scripts, and if so, how do you set
- them up in crontab?
-
- Yeah, I know, I'm a UNIX niminal.....
-
- Steve
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- Steve Dieringer NeXTMail: steved@essex.com
- or, if that doesn't work:
- steved%bullwinkle.uucp@wupost.wustl.edu
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