On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 14:04, David Johnston wrote: > > I was getting trouble with a 'grep something /var/log*' which caused the > > "Memory exhausted" message. With some deeper search I found the lastlog > > file in /var/log/ to be 1.2T sized. > 2) Change the format of lastlog so it doesn't use a sparse file. This > isn't trivial, but I think it's probably the best solution in the long > run (unless #1 happens). This is painful for most ways of backing up and cloning systems too. How about gdbm format as something that would work with miminal changes? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com