Overflowing wtmp

[Root Boy Jim]

In article <338 at alchemy.UUCP> bbs at alchemy.UUCP (BBS Administration) writes:
>a copy of my "wsize" program...
>... I run it as a "root" crontask on the 1st and 15th
>of every month and trim it so only the most recent 2500 records are
>retained. It comes with a manual page, makefile, and one C program.

Tsk tsk, overkill. Howabout a range of 2000 to 3000 records? Try

		#! /bin/sh
		cd /usr/adm
		split wtmp
		set x?? /dev/null /dev/null /dev/null /dev/null
		shift `expr $# - 3`
		cat $* > xxx
		mv xxx wtmp
		rm -f x??

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