On 12/16/2010 11:14 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > 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. > 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. -- Benjamin Franz