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

[Gordon <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 May 2000, John Burgess wrote:

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

Wouldn't echo -n >file be a heck of a lot easier? ;0

> 
> "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
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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.
> > 
> 
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