From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Nov 2 8: 9:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from saturn.bsdhome.com (rdu25-2-113.nc.rr.com [24.25.2.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D75B37B403 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 08:09:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from neutrino.bsdhome.com (jupiter [192.168.220.13]) by saturn.bsdhome.com (8.11.3nb1/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fA2G9mk08809 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:09:48 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bsd@localhost) by neutrino.bsdhome.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA2G9gY41656; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:09:42 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bsd) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:09:42 -0500 From: Brian Dean To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: rotation of lastlog Message-ID: <20011102110942.A41614@neutrino.bsdhome.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Perhaps this is a dumb question, but is there any reason _not_ to have /var/log/lastlog be rotated via newsyslog like most other log files? I thought that maybe it was omitted because it is composed of fixed format data structures and rotating it at just the wrong time could split one of these structures, throwing off alignment. But I see that wtmp is rotated by newsyslog, which has the same issue. If the above is not a concern or can't happen, or there are no other concerns, I'd like to add it. Any objections? Thanks, -Brian -- Brian Dean bsd@FreeBSD.org bsd@bsdhome.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message