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10-28-2006, 12:31 AM
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Queens, NY
Distribution: Red Hat, Solaris
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Clearing last log
Hi! can someone give input on how to clear the last command log so you clear the last users that were logged in from view and start fresh?
Thanks.
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10-28-2006, 01:05 AM
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Registered: May 2004
Location: In the DC 'burbs
Distribution: Arch, Scientific Linux, Debian, Ubuntu
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The information is stored in /var/log/wtmp. You can move or delete this file and create one with the same permissions and it should work (logrotate does this automatically once a month on some systems).
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10-28-2006, 08:03 AM
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Thanks it worked like a charm.
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