Re: SPARCclassic wtmp log growing

From: Chris Newport (crn.news_at_nospam.netunix.com)
Date: 09/26/05

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    Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:50:10 +0100

    James Sweet wrote:
    > I've got a SPARCclassic running Debian Linux which is having an odd issue,
    > and the fact that it's happening with two different flavors of Linux
    > suggests a quirk with the Sun rather than an issue with Linux. Anyway the
    > wtmp log file is growing at an astonishing rate, 10-15MB a day which is a
    > whole lot of text! I looked in it and it's filling up with a bunch of the
    > stuff below. I'm running this box headless so perhaps that has something to
    > do with it?
    >
    >
    > [6] [30245] [1 ] [LOGIN ] [tty1 ] [ ] [Sep 19

    Comment out the offending ttys in /etc/inittab.

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