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From: david@jake.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (David Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Rotating the syslogs
Date: 31 Mar 1993 04:43:42 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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In article <1993Mar30.194840.5890@sci34hub.sci.com> gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) writes:
>In article <1p77tt$rq3@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> david@jake.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (David Nerenberg) writes:
>>I am trying to rotate my syslogs from cron. The cron side of things
>>is fine. Fir example, I move messages to messages.OLD and touch a
>>new messages file.
>
>Don't. Copy messages to messages.OLD, then copy /dev/null into messages.
>
>This leaves the permissions, ownership, and inode number of the messages
>file intact; once copied, you can move messages.OLD any way you want
>without problems.
Nice idea! I didn't think of that. I am off to try it....
Thanks...
-Dave
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