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From: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@manatee.mammalia.org>
To: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com>
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Subject: Re: Zero'ing out files
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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" ?


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