Can i delete varloglastlog

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This reminded me though of a hard-fix of mine for this problem on Windows: I would delete the file and create a directory with the name of the file, in that location. I can't figure out how to comment on your question. Hopefully, more people will call attention to this issue and it will get some attention. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.

Improve this answer. This is cheating. There must be another way. It's a darn good idea though :. Probably not too hard to automate with puppet either. This ended up working. It turns out that the PAM module will never re-create lastlog if it doesn't exist, so the file can just be deleted. Jon Lasser Jon Lasser 1, 10 10 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Unfortunately, tar gets called by a third-party backup service, so I don't have any control over the parameters.

I sent a ticket to the third-party telling them the same thing :. Tepal Tepal 11 1 1 bronze badge. Hi Tepal, thanks for this answer. Given this question already has an accepted answer, could you edit your answer to elaborate a bit on what it is trying to achieve for other folks who may be reading it? Wow, bringing this back from the dead. As I recall, the issue was restoring snapshots of Rackspace public cloud servers.

I thought I had backups, but restore failed because of the space issues mentioned in the original post. I can't remember if tar ran on the VM, or on another server that streamed the image data to the new VM.

I'm using Arch linux with systemd. This works for me. As root: 1. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name.