Overflowing wtmp

[Bill Campbell]

In <1991Jan29.182320.1489 at csn.org> skwu at spot.Colorado.EDU (WU SHI-KUEI) writes:

>In article <705 at camco.Celestial.COM> bill at camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
>>
>>This usually is caused by a flakey terminal connection, bad
>>ground or some such.  ......

>If the complaint were about '/etc/utmp', Bill Campbell's analysis might
>well be correct.  However, '/etc/wtmp' will grow forever on every system,
>and

This is correct.  My assumption was that there was a rapidly
growing wtmp file (runaway terminal) rather than normal growth.

I've seen many cases where a cable problem could fill a large
hard disk overnight.
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