On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 02:41:52PM -0400, Beirne Konarski wrote:
> My logfiles are hitting 2GB and causing nessusd to crash. I'd like to do some
> rotation to manage them. What is the safe way to do this? I assume a kill
> -1 will interrupt any running scans. What happens if I just truncate the
> file? Or do I need to just reset nessus?
Move the file, then do :
kill -1 `cat /usr/local/var/nessus/nessusd.pid`
Also you may want to set "log_whole_attack" to "no" in your .nessusrc to
reduce the size of the logfile.
-- Renaud
