looi@sutro.SFSU.EDU (05/08/91)
I'd like some suggestions on how to trim/prune the ever growing wtmp file. Is there any built-in AIX tool that helps to accomplish this? Thanks in advance.
mike@bria.UUCP (mike.stefanik) (05/10/91)
In an article, looi@sutro.SFSU.EDU writes: |I'd like some suggestions on how to trim/prune the ever growing wtmp |file. Is there any built-in AIX tool that helps to accomplish this? |Thanks in advance. Read about the fwtmp command; in short, it will dump a utmp file to text, which can then be trimmed with tail, and then read it back again. -- Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc, Los Angeles | Opinions stated are never realistic Title of the week: Systems Engineer | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If MS-DOS didn't exist, who would UNIX programmers have to make fun of?