Re: [Proftpd-devel] wtmp held open?

[TJ S. <tj...@ca...>]

> 	I am running out of disk space on my /var partition.
> I have found that proftpd processes hold the wtmp file open during its
> operation, so when I rotate (and compress) wtmp, the unlinked wtmp.1
> is still not deleted, because it is still open by proftpd processes.
> Is there any way to tell proftpd to open the wtmp file on user login,
> then close it, and then re-open it when the session is finished?

No.  ProFTPD has to maintain an open file descriptor for the wtmp file in
order to be able to write the end-of-session information even when
chrooting is done.  That is, proftpd opens the wtmp log, writes the
start-of-session information, then does a chroot.  If the descriptor were
closed before the end of session in the case of a chroot, the
end-of-session data could then not be written to the wtmp log.

TJ

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