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Date:      Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:10:17 -0500
From:      Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com>
To:        Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: rotation of lastlog
Message-ID:  <20011102131017.A42366@neutrino.bsdhome.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BE2C780.7BCA0B21@disney.com>; from Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 08:19:12AM -0800
References:  <20011102110942.A41614@neutrino.bsdhome.com> <3BE2C780.7BCA0B21@disney.com>

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On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 08:19:12AM -0800, Jim Pirzyk wrote:

> As I understood it, lastlog never really grew in size because
> there is only 1 entry for each user on your system, and when
> the logged in, that entry was updated.

This seems to be case.  Thus, rotating it doesn't make a whole lot of
sense, in general.  Thanks for the clarification on how this file is
used, I won't pursue adding it to newsyslog.conf.

-Brian
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Brian Dean
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