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On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 21:48 +0100, Morten wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Can any of you explain this weirdness:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">[root@machine log]# cd /var/log/</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">[root@machine log]# ls -la|grep last</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">-r-------- 1 root root 1254130450140 Nov 6 21:44 lastlog</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">[root@machine log]# du -hs lastlog</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">52K lastlog</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">What's up with the output of ls? This is x86_64.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Morten</FONT>
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There was a thread about this some time back.. you can safely delete the file, then touch the filename and all will be well. There also was, I believe, a bugzilla about it somewhere upstream.<BR>
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Sam<BR>
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