Re: [cobalt-users] lastlog file gets very big.

[josh <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:31:45AM -0500, Zeffie wrote:
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root   root   19136220 Dec 14 00:12  /var/log/lastlog
> > [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
> 
> yes it should be rotated by logrotate  and the best way to see what is in it
> is with last | more

1. I thought that the command 'last' displays the contents of
   /var/log/wtmp and that 'lastlog' displays the content of the
   lastlog file.

2. The output of both commands, 'last' and 'lastlog' is about 200
   lines long, which is to say both last and lastlog should be
   relatively small files.

3. /var/log/lastlog is now exactly the same size as it was when I
   asked. I think something is broken -- but what?
	 
[22:23:08:war-admiral:~]ls -la /var/log/lastlog
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     19136220 Dec 17 21:16 /var/log/lastlog

> 
> I have seen ftp webcams cause this due to a high amount of logins by the
> cam...
> 
> This can fill up your / too
> 
> Zeffie
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Josh Kuperman                       
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