Hi,
Can I know how did all you you mange the file wtmpx? My Solaris 8 server having this file and it is now grow till 1.5GB.
I would like to know why I cant read this file using vi and cat. Can we remove this file or clean up the content of this file?
Does someone has any ideas?
The file wtmpx contains the history of user access and administrative information.
The last command looks in the /var/adm/wtmpx file, which records all logins and logouts, for information about a user, a terminal, or any group of users and terminals.
So, if you nuke it, your "last" command will only show logins since the nuke time.
If that's ok, you can nuke it with
cat /dev/null /var/adm/wtmp
cat /dev/null /var/adm/wtmpx
and it will be zero'd. You don't want to just rm it, since the process will be looking for the file. Using /dev/null will zero it without confusing any processes.
