"lastlog" file question

[nathan r. hruby]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Konstantin Riabitsev wrote:

> 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.
> 

I think that really depends on your view of users.

-n
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