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

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 2/9/07, Fábio Mierlo <geromao at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Isn't only wtmp used for 'last'? I think that utmp is only used for
'who', that is, only stores information about the current session,
being fine to be removed before rebooting. But I'm not sure.

-- 
Lucas
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