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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: /var/log/lastlog ?
Date: 18 Feb 1994 00:14:31 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: michael@jester.GUN.de's message of Sun, 13 Feb 1994 13:42:36 GMT


In article <CL60rF.53G@jester.GUN.de> michael@jester.GUN.de (Michael
Gerhards) writes:

   Hm, then something is wrong with it. My /var/adm/lastlog was ~ 960
   KB big. And my system has ~ 10 users !

It's a `sparse' file.  It's not really that large.  Try `ls -ls' to
see the number of blocks.

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