The only thing to remember with that is you may have to restart / kill -HUP the application writing to the log file or it may continue to put data in the old file. -----Original Message----- From: Marcus J. Ranum [mailto:mjrat_private] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:34 AM To: Jose Nazario; Subba Rao Cc: loganalysisat_private Subject: Re: [logs] Log rotation tools >homebrew: cp logfile logfile.$TODAY && cp /dev/null logile It's probably better to use touch logfile instead of cp /dev/null logfile on the outside chance that something has actually been written to the log file. Also, usually, this is done with the 'mv' command, which is faster and less likely to result in more data piling up in the old logfile. So what I'd suggest looks more like: mv logfile logfile.$TODAY && touch logfile mjr. (a bit rusty with UNIX...) --- Marcus J. Ranum Chief Technology Officer, NFR Security, Inc. Work: http://www.nfr.com Personal: http://www.ranum.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: loganalysis-unsubscribeat_private For additional commands, e-mail: loganalysis-helpat_private
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