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Old 06-24-2007
wtmpx file
Hello everybody:
the wtmpx file on my Sol8 machine, got so big (2GB), that my root partition is almost full now, can I empty that file, I read about it that it contains database of user access and auditing, so in case I emptied it will it affect my system??

Thanks alot
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Old 06-24-2007
You can empty the file. It only contains all the log of the login to your system, however the point to keep in mind is that you should remove /var/adm/wtmp and /var/adm/wtmpx at the same time else if you remove only /var/adm/wtmpx, it will be recreated by the info from /var/adm/wtmp.

Hope this helps !!
kamitsin
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Old 06-24-2007
Thanks alot for your reply kamitsin,
I noticed that I dont have /var/adm/wtmp on my system, so is it ok to empty only the : /var/adm/wtmpx??

Thanks again
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Old 06-24-2007
yes , you can !!!
kamitsin
 
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