RE: [cobalt-users] RE: Clearing Web Log

["John Burgess" <john.burgess@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Do a "Ctrl d" instead of a "ctrl c"

"ctrl c" just kills the cat command.  "ctrl d" sends an end-of-file

John Burgess
President, Allegro Data Systems
12500 Network, Suite 401
San Antonio, TX  78249
210-558-0709
E-mail <mailto:john.burgess@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David D
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 7:13 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] RE: Clearing Web Log
> 
> 
> I'm curious, why not just issue:
> 
> cat > logname
> 
> Then <enter> to clear out any logs that need zero'd out. You 
> then have to hit
> "Ctrl C" to return to prompt, but it will zero out the log 
> file in question
> without causing problems for the log.
> 
> When the RaQ3's were sick with all their log file rotation 
> and stats reporting
> issues, we had to go in on a daily basis and issue this 
> command to each server
> because the main access and error logs grew so large.. We've 
> used this method
> many times without any problems.
>