/var/log/wtmp problem

Jurgen Defurne jurgen.defurne@philips.com
Mon Sep 12 07:27:00 GMT 2005


Hello,

Can someone explain for what /var/log/wtmp is used ?

It seems that this file grows very quickly in our Cygwin environment, and 
I
want to find out which programs write to this file. /var/log/wtmp gets
an update almost every two seconds here.

We do not use very much programs, I think this covers the complete
list :
- screen (no reference to wtmp found in info)
- bash (standard shell)
- Perl (background programs/ exec ?)
- ssh
- rxvt
- watch

Regards,

Jurgen Defurne

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