files that grow like topsy

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Thanks, Kirk,
I guess I have to do that sort of thing by hand in Slackware.
Pity.
Chuck

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Kirk Wood wrote:

> Charles,
>
> I checked arround on my system. In my monthly cron job file there is a
> comment that the rotation of wtmp has been taken over by logrotate. (I
> have debian if it matters.) Also, I noticed that I have a wtmp.1 last
> modified on Jan 31, and a wtmp. From this information I would think that
> it would be fine to move the file and let the system create a new one
> automatically. If you wanted to be sure, you could touch the file just
> after moving to put a new one in place.
>
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