Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 21:31:21 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Richard <guyuan@telpacific.com.au>, FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: Why the last logs always restart [more helpful stuff] Message-ID: <20020331212756.R61877-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020401015945.GD44037@dan.emsphone.com>
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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
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