16 Dec
2010
16 Dec
'10
9:11 p.m.
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:17:22AM -0800, Benjamin Franz wrote:
The man page for lastb says if you just complete delete /var/log/btmp the system shouldn't recreate it on its own.
And if, for some reason, the system _does_ try to recreate then you could use mknod to make it a device node that matches /dev/null eg mknod /var/log/btmp c 1 3
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rgds
Stephen