Re: [7.0.2] rotating log files ...

On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 02:31:29PM -0400, Chris Ryan wrote:
> It's not normally a good idea to move/remove files that a process has an
> open file handle for. The safest way is to copy the file to a new
> location/name then cat /dev/null > logfile

What's wrong with moving the file when it's in use?

Copying the file will take much longer, and you might loose log-entries
that are written after cp but before truncate.


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Ragnar Kjorstad