From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: Fri May 02 2003 - 11:39:40 EDT
The quick and simple way is "> /var/adm/wtmp", to clear out the whole thing.
You could make a copy of it first, if you like, so that you've got some sort
of archive, or just to have the previous week/month's data.
Alternatively, you can use the fwtmp command to convert it to plain text;
process it in some way to discard unwanted records; then use fwtmp again to
convert it back.
Simon Green
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-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Hanel [mailto:hanela@BILLINGS.K12.MT.US]
Sent: 02 May 2003 16:25
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: clearing wtmp
What is the correct way to clear my entries in wtmp? I've got records in
there from 4 years ago.
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