Re: last log related question

[eim <eim@eimbox.org>]

Thanks, Volker for your help,
I'll go and check the config files you told me.


On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 19:49, Volker Dormeyer wrote:
> sorry, forgot to sent it to the list...
> 
> 
> ----- Forwarded message from Volker Dormeyer -----
> 
> Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 19:46:40 +0100
> Subject: Re: last log related question
> To: eim <eim@eimbox.org>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 06:30:56PM +0100,
> eim <eim@eimbox.org> wrote:
> > First of all Happy new Year to everyone on this list !
> 
> thanks, same to you.
>  
> 
> > Last time I logged in as root and ran the command 'last'
> > I saw that there where no logs, the output was just:
> > 
> > ~# last root
> > wtmp begins Tue Jan  1 18:29:15 2002
> >
> > That's all, anyone has hacked my box and deleted my last logs ?
> > Or just some 'crontab-joke' ?
> 
> The "last" command looks at /var/log/wtmp. The wtmp log on debian
> rotates monthly via logrotate. Take a look at /etc/logrotate.conf
> for logrotate configuration. It's started by cron - look at
> etc/cron.daily/logrotate.
> 
> regards,
> Volker
> 
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 Ivo Marino                    eim@eimbox.org
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