Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 12:13:05 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Alejandro Ramirez' <ales@megared.net.mx>, "Lane Covington, Distance Education/Multi-Media Specilist" <covingtl@mcc.montgomery.cc.nc.us> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: How to reset the log file in free-bsd. Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105BD9@site2s1>
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Or just 'touch httpd-access.log' To restart apache, use apachectl restart. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Alejandro Ramirez [SMTP:ales@megared.net.mx] > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 2:44 PM > To: jesusr@ncsa.es; Lane Covington, Distance Education/Multi-Media > Specilist > Cc: faq@FreeBSD.ORG; questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: RE: How to reset the log file in free-bsd. > > Hi, > > If you just want to clean up your file without deleting the file or > having to kill the process, you coul try the following "cat /dev/null > > httpd-access.log" and your file will be 0 length and working. > > Ales > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jesus Rodriguez <jesusr@ncsa.es> > To: Lane Covington, Distance Education/Multi-Media Specilist > <covingtl@mcc.montgomery.cc.nc.us> > Cc: <faq@FreeBSD.ORG>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 1:14 PM > Subject: RE: How to reset the log file in free-bsd. > > > > > > On 18-Aug-99 Lane Covington, Distance Education/Multi-Media Specilist > wrote: > > > I have a really large 85meg httpd-access.log file. How do I reset > this > > > log file after I have moved the file with mv httpd-access.log > > > http-access.old and then compressed it. But could not determine how > to > > > signal free-bsd a process id with the kill -TERM 'cat httpd.pid' to > > > start a new file. Did not see any reference to this in the handbooks. > > > Could you reply please. > > > Lane, Distance Education Tech > > > > Please, send this kind of questions to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > (included > > now with CC). > > > > Thanks > > JesusR. > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > 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
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