Rotating wtmp

[Serge Dubrouski]

logrotate -f

man logrotate.

On 6/28/06, Poluri, Ramachandra Rao <rp230050 at ncr.com> wrote:
> Don't we have a command to do so..forcing rotation..
>
> -Ramachandra.
>
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> cp /var/log/wtmp /var/log/wtmp.old
> cp /dev/null /var/log/wtmp
>
> if yopu don't want to make a copy.
>
> On 6/28/06, Poluri, Ramachandra Rao <rp230050 at ncr.com> wrote:
> > I want to force the rotation of wtmp right now..
> > How can we do it??
> >
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> >
> > /var/log/wtmp {
> >    monthly
> >    create 0664 root utmp
> >    rotate 1
> > }
> >
> > in the /etc/logrotate.conf
> >
> > On 6/28/06, Poluri, Ramachandra Rao <rp230050 at ncr.com> wrote:
> > > Frnds..
> > >
> > > How do we rotate /var/log/wtmp ?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > > -Ramachandra.
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