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| nobody 2007-11-11, 1:33 am |
| how do I clear or prevent from displaying the last logon users with last?
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| Dave Hinz 2007-11-11, 1:33 am |
| On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:28:34 -0800, nobody <nobody@nobody.com> wrote:
> how do I clear or prevent from displaying the last logon users with last?
A suggestion. Instead of asking how to do something unusual like this,
tell us why you're asking, and what you've tried, and what you learned
from it. The way you're going, it's starting (ahem) to look like you're
not doing any homework yourself whatsoever before running to the group
for help.
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| nobody 2007-11-11, 1:33 am |
| ok I cleared the last log, wtmp.* files, what else do i need to do?
"Dave Hinz" <DaveHinz@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:5pn6imFs4spgU1@mid.individual.net...
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:28:34 -0800, nobody <nobody@nobody.com> wrote:
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> A suggestion. Instead of asking how to do something unusual like this,
> tell us why you're asking, and what you've tried, and what you learned
> from it. The way you're going, it's starting (ahem) to look like you're
> not doing any homework yourself whatsoever before running to the group
> for help.
>
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| Barry Margolin 2007-11-11, 1:33 am |
| In article <fh5p11$7mh$2@news.Stanford.EDU>,
"nobody" <nobody@nobody.com> wrote:
> "Dave Hinz" <DaveHinz@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:5pn6imFs4spgU1@mid.individual.net...
> ok I cleared the last log, wtmp.* files, what else do i need to do?
What about /var/log/wtmp (without .*)?
Did you try reading the man page for last(1)? It tells you what file it
reads.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
*** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
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| Dave Hinz 2007-11-11, 7:21 pm |
| On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:22:23 -0800, nobody <nobody@nobody.com> wrote:
> ok I cleared the last log, wtmp.* files, what else do i need to do?
Stop top-posting, read the article "How to ask questions the smart way",
and learn from it. A better question would have involved telling us why
you think you want to do it in the first place, because whatever you're
trying to accomplish has probably been figured out in an elegant way
already, that you could benefit from more than just blowing away your
logfiles.
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