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Old 06-13-2007, 10:20 AM   #1
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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?
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Old 06-14-2007, 08:31 PM   #2
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That's what I do. Mine doesn't get a lot of entries, so I just added the following to /etc/logrotate.conf:
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/var/log/btmp {
    monthly
    create 0600 root root
    rotate 1
}
 
  


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