Re: Incredibly huge /var/log/lastlog
On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 10:00:17PM +0100, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> In article <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980212145326.238A-100000@cgowave-3-77.cgocable.net>,
> Colin R. Telmer <telmerco@qed.econ.queensu.ca> wrote:
> >After a recent hamm upgrade (two or three days ago) on my machine (pretty
> >much a single user machine) I noticed that /var/log/faillog and
> >/var/log/lastlog are incredibly large (particularily lastlog):
> >
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1522440 Feb 10 23:03 faillog
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18523020 Feb 11 09:18 lastlog
>
> Probably the struct lastlog is a bit bigger, but remember these files
> are mostly empty. The file is probably not taking 18 MB on disk --
> try a "du lastlog" to see how many bytes it is really taking.
Would someone mind to explain me and the others what fixed seize files are
and why ls shows the wrong information? What is a "struct lastlog"?
Thank you,
Marcus
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