Date: 02 Nov 2001 23:49:18 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: clefevre@citeweb.net Cc: Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rotation of lastlog Message-ID: <xzpwv18bxg1.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <200111021804.fA2I4N697669@gits.dyndns.org> References: <200111021804.fA2I4N697669@gits.dyndns.org>
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Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> writes: > as Jim says, lastlog prabably is a sparse file. so, it don't take > so much space on disk. rotating it probably fill up those wholes. > so, it will take more space than w/o rotating it except if newsyslog > handle well sparse files, but I have a doubt about this since very > few commands handle such files right. Newsyslog doesn't need to "handle well sparse files", it just renames the file (unless you ask it to gzip it), so the file itself is not modified at all. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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