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From: michael@jester.GUN.de (Michael Gerhards)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: /var/log/lastlog ?
References: <CL0q2s.G6@jester.gun.de> <2jfp0a$aop@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <1994Feb11.235107.16781@emba.uvm.edu>
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Date: Sun, 13 Feb 1994 13:42:36 GMT
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In article <1994Feb11.235107.16781@emba.uvm.edu> , Garrett Wollman wrote:
> The `lastlog' file is used by
> `login' to print the message ``Last logged in Fri 1 Apr 00:00:00 1994
> from grimble.pritz.org''.
> You can certainly truncate the file if you ant, but it should never
> contain more than one record per user on the system, and therefore
> shouldn't require truncation.
Hm, then something is wrong with it. My /var/adm/lastlog was ~ 960 KB
big. And my system has ~ 10 users !
Michael
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