[cobalt-users] lastlog file gets very big.

[josh <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been going through my various log files, trying to figure out a
few odd problems. I noticed that last log was very big - very much so
when you consider that this system has only been running for about two
weeks.


-rw-r--r--  1 root   root   19136220 Dec 14 00:12  /var/log/lastlog


The outuput of the command that reads the file does what it is
supposed to do - provide one line for each user - most of my users
have never logged in - and I find that it actually even tells me who
has been using webmail.  However lastlog is a large binary file - and
all this information would consititute a very small text file.

[10:09:54:war-admiral:/var/log]lastlog | wc -l
    165   10536


Is it supposed to be rotated somehow? Why is it large? Is something
wrong?

-- 
Josh Kuperman                       
josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx