Huge lastlog

[tikual]

Hi,

I found a huge 'lastlog' in my FC4. Do anyone know why its size seems adnormal?

/var capacity:
/dev/sda2 29753588 138596 28079180 1% /var

ls -l /var/log/lastlog
-r-------- 1 root root 1254130450140 Oct 27 21:10 lastlog

The df -k lets me know that it doesn't consume any space. However, why it shows the adnormal size to me?

Thanks

tikual

 

[Trevoke]

Do you have a log rotating device? Does your log manager handle log rotation?
What are the first and last few lines of the log?

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[thedaver]

The Redhat products (and Fedora) always have shipped with abnormally large lastlog files as part of their history.

Typically when I install, I delete their lastlog file and it gets replaced with a far smaller file once the box builds history. Do so at your own risk, your security milage may vary.

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[ericbrunson]

That must be a corrupted i-node or something, that file claims to be 1.2 terabytes.

 

[thedaver]

Oh dear, I didn't read closely enough.
My redhat reference was a file that starts between 200K-19MB and then once deleted becomes something nearer to 50K

Terabytes is obviously a problem

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[Trevoke]

tikual : df -h please, make it (h)uman readable ;-)

-Haben sie fosforos?
-No tiengo caballero, but I have un briquet.

 

[tikual]

Hi all,

Thanks all of your comments. It seems to be normal after I try the command '> lastlog' to make it null. Now the log is growing normally.

As ericbrunson said, how to fix if i-node table has problem?

Thanks,

tikual