[CentOS] Size of /var/log/lastlog
Sam Drinkard
sam at wa4phy.net
Sun Nov 6 21:16:21 UTC 2005
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 21:48 +0100, Morten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can any of you explain this weirdness:
>
> [root at machine log]# cd /var/log/
> [root at machine log]# ls -la|grep last
> -r-------- 1 root root 1254130450140 Nov 6 21:44 lastlog
> [root at machine log]# du -hs lastlog
> 52K lastlog
>
> What's up with the output of ls? This is x86_64.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Morten
>
>
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.
Sam
>
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