From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 2 22: 1:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from za12nt02.mweb.co.za (za12nt02.mweb.com [196.2.49.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9C5D14EB1 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 22:01:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from LKentane@mweb.com) Received: by za12nt02.mweb.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 07:54:27 +0200 Message-ID: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F318178970540@za12nt02.mweb.com> From: Langa Kentane To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Log files (newbie) Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 07:54:25 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My question about log files is ... how do you get rid of them.. I want to delete some of the stuff on the logs but I don't know the correct way to do this. I know that there is a unix command to create a file that has nothing on it.. maybe that is the answer. And what would happen if I just delete the file. Will a new one be created? Or will FreeBSD complain that it can't find the original file all the time? Thanks in advance ________________________________________________________________________ Langa F. Kentane (CNA, MCP) | Unix, DOS & Window Technical Suppot | The good, the bad & the ugly M-Web Connect PTY/LTD | mailto:evablunted@earthling.net Tel: +27 82 960 4963 | http://members.xoom.com/evablunted ________________________________________________________________________ "Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy Operating Systems" - Linus Torvalds ________________________________________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message