> From: "David Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 4:36 AM

> Question to the OT: how are you deleting catalina.out?  If you aren't
> shutting down tomcat first, you need to do that.  Otherwise some OS's
> recreate the file to it's former size with empty space where log info
> used to be.

Actually, what the OS's do is they keep the other file around until the file
is closed, even though it's been deleted, it won't "go away" until the file
is actually closed. The entry in the directory may be gone, but that actual
data for the file is still around. When the file is finally closed, the
system realizes there are no more references to it, and removes the actual
data.

Just clearing up the process..

Regards,

Will Hartung
([EMAIL PROTECTED])


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