bogus tty entry

[Luke Davis]

Do you need to do it on delay, then log out before it hits?  That is:

(sleep 10; cat /dev/null > /var/wtmp) &
exit

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Adam Myrow wrote:

> The only way to get rid of that is to zero out /var/wtmp and log out of
> all vertial terminals.  You could also reboot, but why bother when you can
> fix it without doing that?  The magic command is "cat /dev/null
> >/var/wtmp."  Catting /dev/null over any file will make it empty but leave
> its ownership and permissions intact, so this is the best way to empty out
> a file that the system relies on.  Good luck.
>
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