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Jarry writes: |
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> Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > Something like that, I never used logrotate by myself. See the man |
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> > page for more information. |
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> Let me ask: how do you deal with /var/log/wtmp? I think it does not |
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> go through syslog, and even it it does, it is not easy to process it |
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> whit that syslog-macro because it is not pure text file. Do you |
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> let it grow forever? Or how do you transfer it to log-server? |
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I just let it grow and grow and grow... on my server, which is running |
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Gentoo for seven years now, it has 27,000 entries, and is at 24 MB. This |
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is okay for me, and I like that I can I see when my fist login on the |
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system was. |
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If space is a concern, you can rename the file and compress it (compress |
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ratio here is 97%), and create is as empty again with 'touch |
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/var/log/wtmp'. |
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Wonko |
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