RE: [7.0.2] rotating log files ...

Just as an FYI ... I just enabled the syslog facility so that it all goes
through there instead ...



On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Neil Toronto wrote:

> The process still has an open file handle, and will continue to do so even
> after you move it.  So, if your file is /var/log/messages, and you do a mv
> /var/log/messages /var/log/messages.old or something (I know that's stupid,
> but this is an example), the process will continue to write to
> /var/log/messages.old.
>
> The best way is what Chris said: copy the file, and cat /dev/null > logfile.
> That'll truncate it well.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ragnar Kj�rstad [mailto:postgres@ragnark.vestdata.no]
>
> 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.
>
>
> --
> Ragnar Kjorstad
>

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