On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:17:22AM -0800, 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. And if, for some reason, the system _does_ try to recreate then you could use mknod to make it a device node that matches /dev/null eg mknod /var/log/btmp c 1 3 -- rgds Stephen