[BlueOnyx:09439] /var getting full

[John Sikes]

Received a message that my /var partition was getting full.  Thought  
it was going to be the spool again, but found that btmp was huge.   
Looks like I got hit very hard in the past 24/48 hours with failed  
login attempts.  Looking for a quick way to purge the file to regain  
space.  I identified the top 10 offenders and blocked their IP's for  
now and just need to reclaim space.

Can I just cat /dev/null > /var/log/btmp?  Is there a better, more  
correct way to clear up some space quick?

Thanks

John Sikes

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