tmux constantly logging in user?

[donchaos]

I just noticed that on my newly setup machine (Ubuntu 15.10) the "accounts-daemon" process was using up nearly 100% cpu time.

After some googling i found that it was because /var/log/wtmp had grown to over 600MB in size. Since that is a binary file i can't read much out of it, but it contains lots of words like tmux, 'my_username', pts/7, pts/16, pts/18 and so on.

Does anyone know what this is about?

[NZBmets]

You can use:

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utmpdump /var/log/wtmp | less
and then Q to exit.

Some further reference: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2295/why-does-var-log-wtmp-becomes-so-huge-how-to-inspect-wtmp-files#2296

[sinistra]

Consider adding the file to logrotate:

For reference: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/manage-linux-log-files-with-logrotate/