Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I move the syslog.mail file and make a new one safely?
mv syslog.mail syslog.mail.1
you must also create the syslog.mail file, before restarting
syslogd. It will only append to an existing file.
James.
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 01:13:54PM +, James R Grinter wrote:
Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I move the syslog.mail file and make a new one safely?
mv syslog.mail syslog.mail.1
you must also create the syslog.mail file, before restarting
syslogd. It will only
I believe fairly standard practice for syslog files is to do a cp to a
new file
cp maillog maillog.bak
then
cp /dev/null /var/log/maillog
That is what I do at least.
chau - eric
Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I move the syslog.mail file and make a new one safely?
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 11:23:22PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
# On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 01:29:42PM -0800, Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote:
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# How can I move the syslog.mail file and make a new one safely?
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# The one I have is 62 MB and represents about 15% of our root partition.
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#
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 05:27:43PM -0500, Justin Bell wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 11:23:22PM +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote:
# On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 01:29:42PM -0800, Samuel Dries-Daffner wrote:
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# How can I move the syslog.mail file and make a new one safely?
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# The one I have is
Samuel Dries-Daffner writes:
How can I move the syslog.mail file and make a new one safely?
Read the manual pages for your syslog.
Appreciate the concern...my system is an IRIX 6.5 and here's the snippet
from man syslogd:
To bring syslogd down, send it a terminate signal (for example,
killall -TERM syslogd).
Thanks to all who responded!
Samuel Daffner
Mills College ITS
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Justin Bell wrote:
On
