Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 01:20:14 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Redd Vinylene <reddvinylene@gmail.com> Cc: questions <questions@freebsd.org>, Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> Subject: Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs? Message-ID: <AANLkTimrKnqKT8fXdq9pN28cY=7K9jcrtJoHj1HLDMAg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=bbT7d=FvFHFpWpZgXb_cHgNGaa_ZS%2BSdWxXua@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimMvTxsdRXhxzXwjdTDzQ5U7m7kzVc0orGwxM5U@mail.gmail.com> <4D2DFEAE.9060403@bah.homeip.net> <AANLkTi=bbT7d=FvFHFpWpZgXb_cHgNGaa_ZS%2BSdWxXua@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Redd Vinylene <reddvinylene@gmail.com>wrote: > Will the logs automatically create themselves? I mean, I picture I have to > manually touch a lotta them in order to avoid "cannot find" error messages? > Please don't top post. do something like this: shutdown now rm /var/log/* exit upon reentering multiuser mode, each logging service will create it's new file. Typically if a service is running and you delete the log from it, the service will not like it. You can HUP the service to have it restart logging, but you'd have to do it manually for each log you deleted. -- Adam Vande More
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