Hi,
I hope this subject attracts some gurus.
I have a webserver which runs in such a way that if delete the log
file, it will not be re-created unless I restart the web server. I
have other webservers which will recreate the log file if I delete
it. Oh well (I prefer the latter).
So I am aware that the server is looking for an inode and not a file
name. When I want to reset the logs I copy them and then I do a
tail log > log
and everything keeps running without any trouble.
Recently someone else messed with the log file and for 4 days the
logs were not appended to the log file. Where are they? Is it
possible to recover them?
Is their an advantage to this method as opposed to the other method
where I can delete the log file and the server will recreate it?
Thanks,
Peter
Might is not Right. But there is a lot of Might knocking
about in this world, and something has to be done about it.
-- King Arthur, The Once and Future King
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