From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 3 16:49:45 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA01944 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:49:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01933 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:49:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-41.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.41]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA13598; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 18:49:00 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA03156; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 18:22:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199901040022.SAA03156@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Harlan Stenn cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Controlling which wtmp records are written? In-reply-to: Message from Harlan Stenn of "Sun, 03 Jan 1999 16:17:57 EST." <1113.915398277@brown.pfcs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 18:22:48 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Harlan Stenn writes: > The "problem" is that a monitoring process logs in to a FreeBSD box every 5 > minutes or so, which means that Every Day about 500 wtmp entries are > created just for this monitoring process. They'd like to stop logging wtmp > records for this login user (only), just because of the amount of space it > takes up. Two thoughts: Why does the monitoring process login every 5 minutes? If its that often why bother logging out? Is the "monitoring" something that can't be done from cron? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message