From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 30 0: 0:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.ucs.co.za (trinity.ucs.co.za [196.23.43.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB88837B402 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:00:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (glock@localhost) by trinity.ucs.co.za (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eAU7n2W27097; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:49:04 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from glock@trinity.ucs.co.za) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 09:49:02 +0200 (SAST) From: Stefan Lesicnik To: Joe Loughry Cc: dougy@bryden.apana.org.au, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syslog is full In-Reply-To: <200011292253.PAA39080@miranda.dnvr.uswest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yup, it wont create the file. Someone also mentioned touching the file. This will work, although you wont have the correct permissions on the file. For me, i just echo "" > /var/log/logfile On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Joe Loughry wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > > If I just go into /var/log and delete that file, will there be any > > > repercussions or will the daemon automatically create a new file? > > The daemon will NOT automatically create the file. This is a feature; > it lets you easily turn off logging without having to modify any of > the startup files--just delete the log file. > > - -Joe > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use > Charset: noconv > > iQA/AwUBOiWI29momnkMQVDQEQKwfACfVxbrtBlTU590Tgeb81Et18rAXUIAoNmv > nSXHBlaUtpfXV8Cv0VEBRpGc > =cXDh > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message