Clarify comment regarding rotation, and remove another comment which has never

been true.  Also add an xref for newsyslog(8).  Partly from Geoff Wing.
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mycroft 1997-10-08 13:47:18 +00:00
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.\" $NetBSD: utmp.5,v 1.6 1997/06/22 08:11:08 lukem Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: utmp.5,v 1.7 1997/10/08 13:47:18 mycroft Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
@ -58,16 +58,13 @@ the
.Nm wtmp
file.
.Pp
These files can grow rapidly on busy systems, daily or weekly rotation
is recommended.
If any of these files do not exist, it is not created.
These
files must be created manually and are normally maintained in either the script
.Pa /etc/daily
or the script
.Pa /etc/weekly .
(See
.Xr cron 8 . )
The
.Nm wtmp
file can grow rapidly on busy systems, and is normally rotated with
.Xr newsyslog 8 .
.Pp
These files must be created manually;
if they do not exist, they are not created automatically.
.Bd -literal -offset indent
#define _PATH_UTMP "/var/run/utmp"
#define _PATH_WTMP "/var/log/wtmp"
@ -210,7 +207,8 @@ file.
.Xr login 1 ,
.Xr who 1 ,
.Xr ac 8 ,
.Xr init 8
.Xr init 8 ,
.Xr newsyslog 8
.Sh HISTORY
A
.Nm utmp