try
tail -n 10 /mysql/why.log > /tmp/why.log
echo > /mysql/why.log
> -Original Message-
> From: Van [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 6:01 PM
> To: Paul DuBois
> Cc: MySQL
> Subject: Re: Irritating Discovery
>
>
> Pau
Paul DuBois wrote:
>
> At 13:12 -0700 6/12/02, Van wrote:
> >Greetings:
> >
> >Perhaps a bug, even. After about 5 months my mysql log file grew to over
> >300MBytes and I figured I'd do something about it as follows:
> >tail -n 10 /mysql/why.log > /tmp/why.log && sudo mv /tmp/why.log
> >/mys
At 13:12 -0700 6/12/02, Van wrote:
>Greetings:
>
>Perhaps a bug, even. After about 5 months my mysql log file grew to over
>300MBytes and I figured I'd do something about it as follows:
>tail -n 10 /mysql/why.log > /tmp/why.log && sudo mv /tmp/why.log
>/mysql/ &&
>mysqladmin -u root flush-lo
