Re: [cobalt-users] Log Clearup

[phoenix hawk <phawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

You can just
rm web.log
followed by
touch web.log (and maybe chown nobody web.log)

You can make it into a script and it'll be easier :)

Bo von Hohenlohe wrote:
> Also, how does one zero the following server wide, rather than one site at
> a time? Thanks again.
>
> cat > web.log
> Ctrl-D
>
> cat > ftp.log
> Ctrl-D
>
> cat > mail.log
> Ctrl-D
>
>
>
>
>
> > I use the following on the first of each month to
> > clear-out all the cache and stats files from all the
> > sites on the server.. You can safely delete the .stats
> > and .cache files if you want -they'll just get
> > recreated the next time reports run..
> >
> > rm /home/sites/site*/logs/web.cache*
> > rm /home/sites/site*/logs/web.stats
> > rm /home/sites/site*/logs/ftp.cache*
> > rm /home/sites/site*/logs/ftp.stats
> > rm /home/sites/site*/logs/mail.cache*
> > rm /home/sites/site*/logs/mail.stats
> >
> > I also visit each sites' log folder every three months
> > and zero the .log files as well (as some of them grow
> > to be quite large).. I don't actually delete the .log
> > files, instead I just zero them using the following
> > commands:
> >
> > (followed by Ctrl-D to escape)
> >
> > cat > web.log
> > Ctrl-D
> >
> > cat > ftp.log
> > Ctrl-D
> >
> > cat > mail.log
> > Ctrl-D
> >
> > That will set each .log file back to zero and leave
> > the file intact.. The .cache and .stats files can be
> > deleted..  Hope that helps..
> >
> > Barbara
> >
> >
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