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Date:      Fri, 2 Nov 2001 11:09:42 -0500
From:      Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com>
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   rotation of lastlog
Message-ID:  <20011102110942.A41614@neutrino.bsdhome.com>

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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
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Brian Dean
bsd@FreeBSD.org
bsd@bsdhome.com

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