I've run into this many times on Linux and I've finally decided I would like to know why.
If I truncate a logfile, say snmpd.log, with say: cat /dev/null > /var/log/snmp/snmpd.log It will result in a file size of 0 bytes... but the very next time the process that holds it open write data to it, boom, the file is huge again. The head of the file will be nulls until it reaches the new data at the end. Why is this? On other unix's, when I zero a file, it grows slowly back up from zero... not jumping back up to it's previous size and then appending. *Brandon Darbro ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
