Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:42:00 -0500 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: <jesusr@ncsa.es>, "Lane Covington, Distance Education/Multi-Media Specilist" <covingtl@mcc.montgomery.cc.nc.us> Cc: <faq@FreeBSD.ORG>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: How to reset the log file in free-bsd. Message-ID: <006501bee9a9$5b876fa0$d4630a0a@megared.net.mx> References: <XFMail.990818201434.jesusr@ncsa.es>
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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.
>
>
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