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How can I disable logs for terminal?

Hi,
when I login to debian server with terminal, I type command: last
and I get last login information.
I want to disable this option and I used even /etc/init.d/rsyslog stop
but again when I logged in next day, I type last and again I get IP address from where I logged in terminal last time.

my question is: How can I disable logs for terminal (user root)?

of course, I checked if rsyslog is running and it is not running:
[FAIL] rsyslogd is not running ... failed!

I visited rsyslog maillist and this was their answer:

Quote:

The record of logins used by the last command is not run through rsyslog, it's a separate auditing log that's managed by the login program itself.

Check /var/log/wtmp, if you read the manpage for login it states that previous sessions are listed there.

# rm /var/log/wtmp
# ln -s /dev/null /var/log/wtmp

This is pretty Q&D though.

thank you, I did as you said and now it is good.