Overflowing wtmp

[mike at bria.UUCP]

In article <92 at tdatirv.UUCP> sarima at tdatirv.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) writes:
>I have found that my wtmp file tends to grow without bound.
>This is annoying.  Is there any clean way to trim it, short of the rather
>crude 'cat /dev/null > /etc/wtmp' approach.  (I *do* know about cron,
>I just need to know what to put in it).

To do it with elegance and grace, how 'bout a little script:

mv /usr/adm/wtmp /usr/adm/owtmp
/usr/lib/acct/fwtmp </usr/adm/owtmp | tail | \
/usr/lib/acct/fwtmp -ic >/usr/adm/wtmp

If you don't have fwtmp(1), then send me mail and I'll mail you
back source.
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Michael Stefanik, Systems Engineer (JOAT), Briareus Corporation
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