"lastlog" file question

[Konstantin Riabitsev]

Felix Jodoin wrote:
> Probably, plus, it might be a virus. /var/log files can get quite big, 
> and usually (since they are just logs, not executables) you can delete 
> any one of them at any given time with root.

Very poor advise. /var/log/lastlog is a "sparse" file -- it doesn't 
actually occupy 18M on your disk, only a few kilobytes. Don't delete 
it, as your utmp/wtmp won't work.

It is definitely not a virus.

Regards,
-- 
Konstantin ("Icon") Riabitsev
Duke University Physics Sysadmin
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