Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 14:50:35 -0700 (PDT) From: custom <jcwells@nwlink.com> To: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zero'ing out files Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000629144715.21744B-100000@utah> In-Reply-To: <395BAFAC.2769ADA5@planetwe.com>
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On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, 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 Apache docs specifically warn against zeroing out files while the process is running. (at least they did the last time I read up on this.) > (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. There is the logrotate port that does this. Later, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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