Re: Log on history in Unix system

From: Scott Wegener (wegster@ncol.net)
Date: 04/12/03 

Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 16:08:56 -0400
From: Scott Wegener <wegster@ncol.net>
To: Hugh Kang <skang@leaguedata.com>

Hugh Kang wrote:
> Barry Margolin <barry.margolin@level3.com> wrote in message news:<RN_ka.16$HL5.347@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net>...
>
>>In article <257137ea.0304091035.4475581d@posting.google.com>,
>>Hugh Kang <skang@leaguedata.com> wrote:
>>
>>>We do NOT have any cron job to clean up wtmp file daily.
>>>I really don't know the reason.
>>
>>Maybe disk space is filling up?
>
>
> Nope, not at all. Any configuration parameter for this?

If you're running on a GNU/Linux system, check the /etc/logrotate.conf
and /etc/cron.daily files. On my 7.3 server, logrotate is a daily cron
job via vixiecron. Note that vixie cron 'cron file jobs' (eg those in
/etc/cron* do NOT show up in a crontab -l listing, so it's highly
possible the files are still being rotated.

Soott