From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 2 10:10:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.bsdhome.com (rdu25-2-113.nc.rr.com [24.25.2.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D33F37B401 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 10:10:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from neutrino.bsdhome.com (jupiter [192.168.220.13]) by saturn.bsdhome.com (8.11.3nb1/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fA2IALk09414; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:10:21 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bsd@localhost) by neutrino.bsdhome.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA2IAHM42409; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:10:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsd) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:10:17 -0500 From: Brian Dean To: Jim Pirzyk Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rotation of lastlog Message-ID: <20011102131017.A42366@neutrino.bsdhome.com> References: <20011102110942.A41614@neutrino.bsdhome.com> <3BE2C780.7BCA0B21@disney.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BE2C780.7BCA0B21@disney.com>; from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 08:19:12AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 08:19:12AM -0800, Jim Pirzyk wrote: > As I understood it, lastlog never really grew in size because > there is only 1 entry for each user on your system, and when > the logged in, that entry was updated. This seems to be case. Thus, rotating it doesn't make a whole lot of sense, in general. Thanks for the clarification on how this file is used, I won't pursue adding it to newsyslog.conf. -Brian -- Brian Dean bsd@FreeBSD.org bsd@bsdhome.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message