Sorry, sent too soon. Generally, you want to look at something like 'logrotate' for managing your /var/log directory instead of directly messing with the log files.
Fuzzy On 3/7/06, Fuzzy Logic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If a process is holding an open file handle, this will happen. > > Fuzzy > > On 3/7/06, Brandon S. Darbro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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
