I could see that, thanks. However OP mentioned the mid-nineties and I was working then. No one was printing out logs or saying "glass teletype" at that time. Twenty years earlier, sure, or maybe some elderly curmudgeons working at a conservative bank/govt installation perhaps.
replyTo answer the sibling post below, I had a 1GB drive at home around that time, enough to store text logs cheaply. Logrotate is apparently from 1996.
people in 2026 still print out logs like this on rolls lf paper. cant be tampered. log tampering is a big issue for forensics. most programs do not have cryptographically verifiable logs.... and yes that wont be for all systems and all types of logs. but will take shittons of paper still to keep the records going back up to like 7+ years
replywe're talking about logs for finger here, not bank transactions
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