Re: [CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

yes i did it before.

du /var/log/message

28 /var/log/faillog

but

ls -al /var/log/

-rw------- 1 root root 137438953440 Oct 24 17:37 faillog

but why it is different ?

2008/10/24 Mogens Kjaer mk@crc.dk:

Semih Gokalp wrote: ...

...

-rw------- 1 root root 137438953440 Oct 24 15:39 faillog

This is a file with "holes" in it, try

du /var/log/faillog

to get the size on disk.

Mogens

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