From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 3 20: 5:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B081549B for ; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 20:05:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from charon.eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA13023; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 05:04:54 +0100 (MET) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by charon.eboa.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA31706; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 05:04:42 +0100 Message-ID: <36DE06BB.3CAAD1B2@eboa.com> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 05:06:19 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Carter Cc: Langa Kentane , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Log files (newbie) References: <913B8C252194D2119BD500805F318178970540@za12nt02.mweb.com> <19990302230712.B20613@globalcenter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Carter wrote: > > Use the 'touch' command to create the file after deleting them. > > There are utilities (logrotate jumps to mind) that will manage your log > files for you. Or send the hangup signal to the daemon to have it do that for you. Handy if there are more than one, like with apache. Roelof To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message