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

[Fábio Mierlo]

Yes, my miss sorry ;-)

On 2/9/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> Lucas
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