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@@ -20,15 +20,25 @@ You can set the following parameters for the loginrecords class. If you just include the class loginrecords this will disable all loginlogs. -$disable_btmp, $disable_utmp, $disable_wtmp -------------------------------------------- +$disable_btmp, $disable_wtmp +--------------------------- -Default: /var/log/btmp, /var/run/utmp and /var/log/wtmp are ensured to -be absent. +Default: /var/log/btmp and /var/log/wtmp are ensured to be absent. These variables, when set to a false, non-empty value, have these files created and their logging enabled again. +$disable_utmp +------------- + +Default: /var/run/utmp is not removed. + +WARNING: Removing utmp removes necessary information for binaries such +as runlevel. This might break other scripts that are relaying on the +output of this binary or other scripts depending on their output. For +example it is known that puppet will not anymore be able to idempodently +manage runlevels. -> https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/5409 + $disable_faillog ---------------- |