thanks for the quick response. that's what I figured. I should have used 2>>memcached.log. we preload memcached with large amount of data and I just wanted to see how it goes...
sheldon -----Original Message----- From: Steven Grimm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 2:15 PM To: Sheldon Chen Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: how to truncate the logs without kill memcached No, and that's nothing to do with memcached; it's true of any program where you're redirecting the output directly into a file. Try piping output to some helper program that opens a new logfile every so often. There are several such available (cronolog springs to mind). Running with -vv in any kind of production environment is unusual. What do you use all that information for, out of curiosity? -Steve Sheldon Chen wrote: > I have used memcached -d -m 1024 -vv 2>memcached.log to start the > memcached and found that the log file memcached.log grows too fast. > Is there a way to remove the logs without killing the memcached first? > > thanks, > sheldon >
