Re: flexfax: wtmp +400k

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, George Zeigler wrote:

> Hello,
> 	apparantly, from a message I found in /var/spool/mail/root
> the file /var/log/wtmp gets archived every so often.  Is this a HylaFax
> process?  If so, what is going on, and why the archive?  Why not just clear out
> the contents?

It ain't HylaFAX. Archival lets you check who logged in when for the period
of the archive.

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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