Hello, We had a problem induced on Samba by our Cygwin installation. Our /var/log/wtmp file grew enormously and made Samba connections flaky. By removing the wtmp file the flakyness is solved, but we would like to know the real cause why the wtmp grew so enormously in such a short time. I am talking about 100'ds of megabytes in a few days.
When I scanned wtmp with 'last', I found out that for several workstations at certain times of the day (especially when doing builds) there where peak accesses (writing probably) in the order of more than once per minute. That is why I am trying to find out by which programs this writing to wtmp can be caused. I grepped for wtmp through most files in /bin, /sbin, /lib, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/lib but I do not find any references to it. Can anybody help me to look further ? Regards, Jurgen -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/