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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
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