/var/log/wtmp always reseting to 0

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On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Richard Lynch wrote:

> man logrotate
>
> Probably the logs are getting rotated and old ones discarded.
>
> Or, possibly, you haven't realized that the old logs are in /var/log/*.#
> where * matches the old log name, and # is 1 to N, for some N defined in
> logrotate configuration.

man logrotate does nothing =

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$ man logrotate
No manual entry for logrotate
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Given that all wtmp.#.gz files have a 0 size would seem to indicate all
the files were emptied somehow?

__________Snip Command Output_____
$ cd /var/log
$ ls -al wtmp*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  308 Oct  1 18:34 wtmp
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    0 Oct  1 05:48 wtmp.0
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    0 Oct  1 05:42 wtmp.1
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    0 Oct  1 05:36 wtmp.2
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    0 Oct  1 05:30 wtmp.3
$
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Also the end of month accounting report sent to root shows no logins at
all wound indicate the wtmp file must be resetting to 0 prior to the end
of the month account process taking place?

Dave