AIX

Oops sorry just ice, i only remember the quote you have, which is light hence i put in a wrong name sorry sorry. I used the command crontab -e. Hi John, icic now i notice my mistake so i guess now i have to read up how to set it to run every week to clear up the wtmp file. I guess now with your command i can change it to cp comamnd and it will still work right?

Hmm guys, i tried the command on other servers and it doesn't work anymore??!!! what happened? i copied the exact command that John you wrote there. I only managed2 let it work in the first server i was working on. HELPPPPP

have you tried to do the echo redirect command like i suggested? if that also doesn't work on the other servers, are you logged in as root on them and do you have the proper permissions to do it? some places even root cannot modify the files because of extra permissions that have been set for security purposes ...

good luck!

the command ">/var/adm/wtmp" in root crontab will clear the file

edit: edit crontab with crontab -e

I usually solve these issues by writing a script in my home bin directory, then calling it via cron. That way, I can test it and so far haven't had issues with things working differently in cron. Well, usually.

HTH

thanks guys it is working now. Thanks for all the suggestions and feedback...

Please don't just tell us it's working. This forum is searchable on the internet and from personal experience there's nothing as frustrating as reading through a thread like this with no solutions posted.

Please post what you found so others might learn.

Thanks...