tw_vincent wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> I start postgresql with "/app/pgsql/bin/pg_ctl start -l
> /app/pgsql/logfile -D /app/pgsql/data", when I use "cat
> /dev/null > /app/pgsql/logile" to clear logfile, I can't clear
> logfile. How can I clear the logfile, thank you!
The problem is that the log file is still being written to by the
postmaster. You can pipe into the rotatelogs script that is part of
Apache, or use syslog.
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