[CentOS] Interesting faillog files.
Matt Hyclak
hyclak at ohio.edu
Fri Oct 24 15:15:00 UTC 2008
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 06:11:29PM +0300, Semih Gokalp enlightened us:
> 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 ?
>
It is what is called a "sparse file". Google should be able to tell you the
details.
Matt
P.S. Please do not top post.
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