Comments on Andrew Beacock's Blog: How to truncate a log file using Ubuntu Linux

depending on the log file you might also want to s...

2008-12-18T05:20:00.000Z

depending on the log file you might also want to send a HUP to the program that has the file open. Eg. if you truncate /var/log/messages do a 'sudo killall -HUP syslogd'

but, if the file is still being appended by a proc...

2008-11-17T15:52:00.000Z

but, if the file is still being appended by a process, it worth nothing in the sence of file size. the file will be updated to its actual size (with NULs) as soon as the appending process flushes..

:> filename(colon greater-than filename) is a muc...

2008-02-07T15:14:00.000Z

:> filename

(colon greater-than filename) is a much shorter syntax :)

Thanks a bunch. Just what I was looking for.

2008-01-28T19:42:00.000Z

Thanks a bunch. Just what I was looking for.