From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 8 19: 7:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3973037B4C5 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:07:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 26698 invoked by uid 100); 9 Nov 2000 03:07:49 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14858.5381.682481.911014@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:07:49 -0600 (CST) To: Bart Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: full /var In-Reply-To: <45736077@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bart types: > Hi all! > I small questions about /var/log. Can I remove > the Apache log files in this directory without > any problems ? Or should Apache be stopped first ? Yes, it won't cause a problem. However, if apache has the log file open, the file will still be on disk, with no way to reach it from the file system. If that's the case, you need to restart apache. Possibly rereading the config file will do the trick.