Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:15:19 -0700 From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@manatee.mammalia.org> To: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Zero'ing out files Message-ID: <20000629141519.A316@manatee.mammalia.org> In-Reply-To: <395BAFAC.2769ADA5@planetwe.com>; from drew@planetwe.com on Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 03:21:01PM -0500 References: <395BAFAC.2769ADA5@planetwe.com>
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 03:21:01PM -0500, Drew Sanford wrote: > Is there a way to zero out a file, and still leave it open, say for an > apache access log? If there is a simple way to rotate the access logs > (is there a way to make newsyslog work for this?) then you can answer > that one two if you like. My git instinct is that I'm going to have to > write a script and let cron run it, because I simply haven't seen > anything besides newsyslog that archives the old logs. Thanks in advance > for any help you can offer. How about "cat /dev/null > file" ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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