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  From: Francesco Peeters <Francesco@Fampeeters.com>
  To  : Daryl Tester <Daryl.Tester@iocane.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 22:24:24 +0100

Re: /var/log/lastlog way too big!

Daryl Tester wrote:

>Francesco Peeters wrote:
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>>My /var/log/lastlog is over 4 GB large, and obviously corrupt (I only
>>have 2 regular logins and a grand total of about 15 accounts)
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>It isn't big, you just think it is (hint: "du -ks /var/log/lastlog").
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>>I have been searching whether I can simply delete it to recover from
>>this oversized lastlog file, but could not find a clear answer...
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>Google for "sparse file".
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I forgot about du... Thanks for reminding me...

Anyway...
du tells me it is 25 kbytes (25600 to be exact), but when I try 'lastlog 
root' (or even just lastlog), I get:
/var/log/lastlog: File too large

Now that should *not* happen, right?

--FP

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