Richard Burt wrote:
> 
> OK, I took a look at the man pages for last.  With no arguments, it should
> tell me all logins from the wtmp file.  Here is what I get:
> 
> # last
> USER     TTY     PID     TIMEON  FROM
> reboot   ~       0       4845    2.2.19

A standard entry - though with the size of your file, it should go on
for pages and pages....

> Figuring it has to do with logins, I also took a look at auth.log (also
> pretty big).  I think the answer is here, but I don't know what to do to fix
> it.  It is full of these.
> 
> Dec 7 06:45:12 firewall /sbin/getty[11929]: /dev/tty1: cannot open as
> standard input: Operation not supported by device
> Dec 7 06:45:13 firewall /sbin/getty[11930]: /dev/tty2: cannot open as
> standard input: Operation not supported by device
> 
> My box does not have any serial ports, so is there something I can do to
> stop it from trying to open them?

Rather surprising that it's trying to do this at all.  However, try the
following:

Check your /etc/inittab for entries that mention these serial ports;
then comment them out.  Then find the process id of "init" using "ps |
grep init" and do "kill -HUP <PidOfInit>"

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