On 12/16/2010 10:29 AM, Joe Pruett wrote: > a while back i reported an issue where /dev/null was getting set to 600 > perms after a system update. i finally figured out what it is. i don't > care about failed logins and have limited space on some servers, so i > symlinked /var/log/btmp to /dev/null. the initscripts package does a > chmod 600 /var/log/btmp, so voila /dev/null gets changed. > > so now i know why it happened just to me. i now need to figure out a > better way to deal with btmp. any ideas from the list? > Put a logrotate config for /var/log/btmp in /etc/logrotate.d that rotates it once a day and use 'rotate 0' to just throw them away. See 'man logrotate' for the configuration syntax. -- Benjamin Franz