wtmp removal unwanted

[MattHew J. Wicks]

>>From karron%CMCL2.NYU.EDU at cunyvm.cuny.edu  Wed Nov 14 17:42:03 1990
>>Date: Wed, 14 Nov 90 14:26:04 EST
>>From: karron%karron.med.nyu.edu at cunyvm.cuny.edu
>>Subject: wtmp removal unwanted.
>>Reply-To: karron%CMCL2.NYU.EDU at cunyvm.cuny.edu
>>Message-Id: <9011141926.AA19056 at karron.med.nyu.edu>
>>
>>
>>I like to know who has logged on my machine, and I want to keep my wtmp file
>>for at least a month or so.

If your goal is simply to see who has logged into your machine (as opposed
to keeping wtmp around, you could enable logging of logins (successes and
failures in SYSLOG). Simply place the following line in
/etc/config/login.options

syslog=all

If you also want to see who is using ftp into your machine, your entry for
ftp in /usr/etc/inetd.conf should look like:

ftp     stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/etc/ftpd           ftpd -l

Make sure you execute "/etc/killall -1 inetd" after changing inetd.conf

Matt Wicks
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
708-840-8083
wicks at fnal.fnal.gov