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

[Jonatan Liljedahl]

Fábio Mierlo wrote:
> 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.

I don't even have the wtmp file:

lijon at Kymatix ~]last
last: /var/log/wtmp: No such file or directory
Perhaps this file was removed by the operator to prevent logging last info.

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