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From: Jesus Rodriguez <jesusr@ncsa.es>
To: "Lane Covington, Distance Education/Multi-Media Specilist" <covingtl@mcc.montgomery.cc.nc.us>
Subject: RE: How to reset the log file in free-bsd.
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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

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Thanks
JesusR.



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