What's /var/log/lastlog for?

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• From: Frank Chen <frankxchen@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:09:38 -0700 (PDT)
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I noticed that /var/log/lastlog is almost 20M. What's
this file for? Can I reduce its size? I am trying to
squeeze the /var directory into a small space.

Thanks,

Frank


		
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