[gobolinux-users] Wheel Mouse -- MouseInfo and utmp/Shutdown

[Fábio Mierlo]

On 2/8/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> I was wondering here whether it was correct to remove these files at
> boot, but I just saw the following line in our default BootUp:
>
> Exec "Creating utmp and wtmp..."              CreateChmod 644
> $goboVariable/run/{u,w}tmp
>
> So, I guess it's fine to remove utmp on reboot. wtmp, as far as I
> know, should not be touched, though. Is that correct? I never did pay
> too much attention to these /var files.
>

Hi, AFAIK this files are used for the 'last' command. I don't pay attention
in this files on 013 release, but in the 012 they aren't created on install
and I must touch then for the command 'last' work.