"lastlog" file question

ron yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu May 15 07:04:01 2003


I would try renaming it to something else and see if anything breaks or 
complains. If nothing does after rebooting a few times and/or using all 
of the things you normally use, then I would go ahead and get rid of it.

-Ron

On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 01:58 PM, 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.
> -Alias
>
> On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 06:03  AM, Thomas Kuehner wrote:
>
>> Hi all
>>
>> I discovered a 18,25 MB large file called "lastlog" in /var/log/ 
>> containing
>> only one char.
>>
>> Does anyone know if this can be deleted without causing problems to 
>> free up
>> some drive space?
>>
>> Thomas
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