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rattis is offline rattis
2006-04-14 , 20:35
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Originally Posted by fpp
I don't think these values are very significant or trustworthy. I had never heard of that file before, and when I checked after reading this on my 770 it appeared with a size of 231 MB ! Obviously not possible on a "stock" unit (no swap on MMC etc.). After deleting it and linking it to /dev/null as above I didn't see any change in memory occupation, either.
Its the file used for the command last. Last tells you who has been logging into the box. It's a nice little command to see what kind of usuage you're box is getting. There is another file, not on the 770 but in linux called /var/log/btmp which is used with lastb to tell you who the last bad login attempts were from.