Bug#61880: marked as done (wtmp files not rotated)
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From: Ted Cabeen <secabeen@pobox.com>
Subject: wtmp files not rotated
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This may be a bug that goes into base-files, but there is nothing in
libc6 as of 2.1.3-2 that rotates the /var/log/wtmp files. I've also looked
at the changelogs for 2.1.3-7 and they don't mention wtmp at all.
Niether does base-files 2.1.18 or 2.1.19, which i also checked.
Not rotating the wtmp files, which should happen at least once every few
months creates files of hundreds of megs in size that fill up the /var
partition unnecessarily.
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 19:35:16 -0700
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From: Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#61880: wtmp files not rotated
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>This may be a bug that goes into base-files, but there is nothing in
>libc6 as of 2.1.3-2 that rotates the /var/log/wtmp files. I've also looked
>at the changelogs for 2.1.3-7 and they don't mention wtmp at all.
>Niether does base-files 2.1.18 or 2.1.19, which i also checked.
>
>Not rotating the wtmp files, which should happen at least once every few
>months creates files of hundreds of megs in size that fill up the /var
>partition unnecessarily.
This is done by logrotate as of potato, before that
/etc/cron.monthly/standard did the job.
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