From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 3 13:18:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08718 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 13:18:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pcpsj.pfcs.com (harlan.clark.net [168.143.10.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA08713 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 13:18:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com) Received: from mumps.pfcs.com [192.52.69.11] (HELO mumps.pfcs.com) by pcpsj.pfcs.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) via ESMTP id for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:17:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from brown.pfcs.com [192.52.69.44] (HELO brown.pfcs.com) by mumps.pfcs.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) via ESMTP id for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 13:17:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1] (HELO brown.pfcs.com) by brown.pfcs.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) via ESMTP id for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 16:17:58 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Controlling which wtmp records are written? X-Face: "csXK}xnnsH\h_ce`T#|pM]tG,6Xu.{3Rb\]&XJgVyTS'w{E+|-(}n:c(Cc* $cbtusxDP6T)Hr'k&zrwq0.3&~bAI~YJco[r.mE+K|(q]F=ZNXug:s6tyOk{VTqARy0#axm6BWti9C d Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 16:17:57 -0500 Message-ID: <1113.915398277@brown.pfcs.com> From: Harlan Stenn Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Somebody asked me if there was a way to disable writing to wtmp for certain logins. 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. I didn't see a way to do this from login.conf, and I read the man pages for login and expected to find the wtmp logging in /usr/bin/login, but it's not (obviously) being done from there. Ideas? H To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message