From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 31 18:31:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AFBB37B41C for ; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 18:31:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBEB528BA2; Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:31:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:31:21 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Dan Nelson Cc: Richard , FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Why the last logs always restart [more helpful stuff] In-Reply-To: <20020401015945.GD44037@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: <20020331212756.R61877-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: > Different versons of FreeBSD rotate the wtmp file at different rates, and in different places. Sometimes it's done in /etc/newsyslog, sometimes in /etc/periodic/monthly/200.accounting. Older copies of wtmp should be named /var/log/wtmp.# > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com prompt$ man newsyslog ; man cron ; man crontab ; more /etc/crontab prompt$ man last ; last -f /var/log/wtmp.#.backup.file.or.whatever ;-) -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message