On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Benjamin Franz wrote: > The man page for lastb says if you just complete delete /var/log/btmp > the system shouldn't recreate it on its own. > > That is the simplest answer. i have done this for now, but the initscripts rpm will recreate it for me if it updates (how helpful :-). i should probably whine upstream that nothing rotates the btmp file.