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msteiner

06-13-2007 10:20 AM

logrotate and /var/log/btmp

What is the best way to handle the btmp file? The current btmp file on my server is quite large. Is it best to just rotate this log file monthly with logrotate?
Thanks,
Mary

gilead

06-14-2007 08:31 PM

That's what I do. Mine doesn't get a lot of entries, so I just added the following to /etc/logrotate.conf:

Code:

/var/log/btmp {

    monthly

    create 0600 root root

    rotate 1

}

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