According to David Churchill: While burning my CPU.
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> I thought I was cleaning up my huge messages log in /var/log by deleting
> it. I re-created it with: touch messages but now syslogd doesn't seem to be
> writing to it. How do I fix this?
kill -HUP `pidof syslog` should do the trick.
BTW;
If you received a mixed up mail from me with garbage in it please blame my
mouse for cutting and pasting something it should have not.
My appolagies.
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> Thanks in advance,
> David Churchill
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Regards Richard.
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