Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 14:46:21 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com>, Jim Pirzyk <Jim.Pirzyk@disney.com>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rotation of lastlog Message-ID: <20011102224621.ADE5139F0@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20011102193106.N2484-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net>
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Nils Holland wrote: > On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Brian Dean wrote: > > > 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. > > Hmm, well, then at least the answer I posted was not all that wrong: It > *could* be rotated, but it probably makes very little sense to do so ;-) Yes, rotating it is exactly the wrong thing to do - it would defeat the purpose of the file. :-) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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