"Chris Newport" <crn.news@nospam.netunix.com> wrote in message
news:dh7gk2$d6t$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk...
> James Sweet wrote:
> > I've got a SPARCclassic running Debian Linux which is having an odd
issue,
> > and the fact that it's happening with two different flavors of Linux
> > suggests a quirk with the Sun rather than an issue with Linux. Anyway
the
> > wtmp log file is growing at an astonishing rate, 10-15MB a day which is
a
> > whole lot of text! I looked in it and it's filling up with a bunch of
the
> > stuff below. I'm running this box headless so perhaps that has something
to
> > do with it?
> >
> >
> > [6] [30245] [1 ] [LOGIN ] [tty1 ] [ ] [Sep 19
>
> Comment out the offending ttys in /etc/inittab.

But it's *all* the ttys! I need to have at least one of them active so I can
log into it locally if I ever need to do that, of course that involves
plugging in a keyboard and rebooting. Hmm maybe if I boot it with the kb
plugged in then pull it?