wtmp

[Bill Tangren]

Paula J. Lindsay wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> We have an issue here at the institute.  Our rh ws 4's and fedora's are 
> running on instruments and the lab uses the file
> wtmp to bill the users for the time they are spending on these 
> instruments.  The problem is, at the end of the month,
> the wtmp file deletes itself.  We need to get it set up to copy to a 
> file, i.e.,
> 
> wtmp=this month
> wtmp1=last month
> wtmp2=the month before
> 
> does anyone know how I can do this?  Any advice/suggestions/opinions 
> will be generously welcome.
> Many thanks in advance.
> Paula
> 

My /etc/logrotate.conf rotates the wtmp file. Try doing that:


# no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
     monthly
     create 0644 root utmp
     rotate 1
}