IN the /var/log/ folder there are two files
WTMP and BTMP
BTMP is getting huge after a year, about 800MB, WTMP is getting close to 1MB.
In the /etc/logrotate.conf I see this
-------------------- # no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here /var/log/wtmp { monthly minsize 1M create 0664 root utmp rotate 1 } -------------------
I can see where WTMP will probably rotate at some point soon. However there is nothing for BTMP.
I thought about doing the same thing for btmp however the permissions are set at 0600 currently on the file. Will logrotate be able to rotate it at 0600 and if it creates at 0600 will it still work. Should I change to 0644 or 0664 (which would allow others to read the file?)
/var/log/btmp { monthly minsize 1M create 0664 root utmp rotate 1 }
I saw some fedora bugs on this and many were worried about the permissions and had issues with the logrotate of this file due to it. No solution was yet shown though they said it was fixed upstream.
My file is almost a gigabyte and I am thinking of just 'touching' it to clear it. Any imput, ideas, etc, would be cool. Manually rotate it? Ideas?