[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Zapped wtmp...

[From: Nils Faerber]

Jonathan Matthews-Levine schrieb:
> On 4/13/06, Kimmo Hämäläinen <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com> wrote:
>> We have a 'temp reaper' daemon for deleting some temporary files that
>> have not been used for some time (e.g. temporary E-mail attachments):
>> https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/osso-af-utils/src/temp-reaper.c
>> It only seems to clear '/var/tmp' currently. I don't know why we have
>> missed the wtmp file...
> Is there any possible downside to deleting wtmp?  Mine is over 200mb now ...

Not that I knew of.
I have mine linked to /dev/null for several days now and everything
seems very normal (even more normal than before ;)

And as I just found out (posted in other post) older software releases,
namely W48 and probably before, did not write a wtmp.

So I guess this is simpl a configuration bug in the latest software version.

> Jonathan
Cheers
  nils faerber

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