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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!apple!kaleida.com!conklin From: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: /var/log/lastlog? Date: 14 Feb 1994 18:08:58 GMT Organization: Winning Strategies, Inc. Lines: 15 Message-ID: <CONKLIN.94Feb14100859@ngai.kaleida.com> References: <CL0q2s.G6@jester.gun.de> <2jfp0a$aop@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <1994Feb11.235107.16781@emba.uvm.edu> <CL60rF.53G@jester.GUN.de> Reply-To: conklin@kaleida.com NNTP-Posting-Host: ngai.kaleida.com In-reply-to: michael@jester.GUN.de's message of Sun, 13 Feb 1994 13:42:36 GMT In article <CL60rF.53G@jester.GUN.de> michael@jester.GUN.de (Michael Gerhards) writes: In article <1994Feb11.235107.16781@emba.uvm.edu>, Garrett Wollman wrote: Garrett> You can certainly truncate the file if you ant, but it should Garrett> never contain more than one record per user on the system, Garrett> and therefore shouldn't require truncation. Michael> Hm, then something is wrong with it. My /var/adm/lastlog was Michael> ~ 960 KB big. And my system has ~ 10 users ! /var/adm/lastlog is a sparse file -- it only has one record per user, but they are at fixed offsets based on user-id. Only disk blocks with actual data are allocated, the rest are "holes". --jtc