The output of last -10 stopps in the past (today is May 2): # last -10 shutdown time Tue Mar 25 17:30 guru ttyv1 Tue Mar 25 17:28 - shutdown (00:02) guru ttyv0 Tue Mar 25 17:15 - shutdown (00:14) boot time Tue Mar 25 16:13 shutdown time Tue Mar 25 06:53 guru pts/0 Tue Mar 25 06:41 - 06:53 (00:12) guru ttyv0 Tue Mar 25 06:39 - shutdown (00:14) boot time Tue Mar 25 06:38 shutdown time Mon Mar 24 07:04 guru pts/0 Mon Mar 24 06:24 - 07:04 (00:39)sh trussing shows that not the full file size is read-in: .. open("utx.log.0",O_CLOEXEC,0666) = 3 (0x3) fstat(3,{ mode=-rw-r--r-- ,inode=5379456,size=111586,blksize=32768 }) = 0 (0x0) read(3,"\0\^U\a\0\^D\M-^\^Xr\^Wo\M^H\M-m"...,32768) = 32768 (0x8000) read(3,"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,32768) = 32768 (0x8000) read(3,"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"...,32768) = 32768 (0x8000) close(3) = 0 (0x0) .. How-To-Repeat: just let grow utx.log enogh
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