On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 9:42 AM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu> wrote:

And how did you handle it?
>

The simplest way to truncate the file is with truncate or just ">file",
since writes are small enough to be atomic.  The sa utility, which also
goes back to v7, will summarize process accounting data and write it to a
different file; it can then report on either unsummarized data or
summarized data before unsummarized data).  Unfortunately Linux has broken
the wtmp/utmp convention of "no logfile, no logging", so a cron job to
truncate wtmp is your only man.

John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan@ccil.org
Original line from The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold:
"Only on Barrayar would pulling a loaded needler start a stampede toward
one."
English-to-Russian-to-English mangling thereof: "Only on Barrayar you risk
to
lose support instead of finding it when you threat with the charged weapon."