> Sorry, nothing ...
> (that is ... i first deleted the file to clean it, touched it ... and it's
> been empty ever since)
The running process has still the deleted file opened and it will be closed 
and deleted completely, when it exists. So you should log out and in and the 
file should get filled again.

"cp /dev/null targetfile" should empty a file without changing the 
inode/filedescriptor.

- Sascha

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