Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 18:22:48 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Controlling which wtmp records are written? Message-ID: <199901040022.SAA03156@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com> of "Sun, 03 Jan 1999 16:17:57 EST." <1113.915398277@brown.pfcs.com>
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Harlan Stenn writes: > The "problem" is that a monitoring process logs in to a FreeBSD box every 5 > minutes or so, which means that Every Day about 500 wtmp entries are > created just for this monitoring process. They'd like to stop logging wtmp > records for this login user (only), just because of the amount of space it > takes up. Two thoughts: Why does the monitoring process login every 5 minutes? If its that often why bother logging out? Is the "monitoring" something that can't be done from cron? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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