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Re: rotating lastlog?



Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> wrote:
> Nope, think about it. uid_t is 16 bits; struct lastlog is 292 bytes with
> glibc. So the maximum size is 65536*292 == 19136512 bytes == 18688K == 18M
> Still size, not real diskspace in use.

I might have had a chance of figuring it out for myself, if it were
documented in the login package.

Is it reasonable to ask people to download source (or dev) packages to
answer administrative questions -- or are we adopting a policy that such
things are expected to be installed on most well-run system?

-- 
Raul


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