huge lastlog file?

[Konstantin Riabitsev]

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On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 11:36, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
> Should /var/log/lastlog be this big?

What's really going to bake your noodle is if you do:

ls -hl /var/log/lastlog

and

du -h /var/log/lastlog

and compare the two. :)

Hint: It's a "sparse file," so it only looks like it's 18M.

Regards,
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Konstantin ("Icon") Riabitsev
Duke Physics Sysadmin, RHCE

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