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Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 14:40:45 -0600
Subject: Re: Stupid log file problems...
From: "Jason Prosser" <jprosser@teraglobal.com>
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on 7/2/01 2:12 PM, Ryan Masse at mail@max-info.net wrote:

> you may want to try;
> 
> 1. delete, move, copy, gzip whatever /var/log/security
> 2. touch /var/log/security          < creates a new empty file in that
> location
> 3. killall -HUP syslogd             < restarts syslog
> 4. ipfw resetlog                        < resets and restarts the ipfw
> logging
> 
> that should work..
> 
> Ryan

Thank you... 

Worked like a charm.

jp


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