At 09:57 PM 3/3/99 -0600, you wrote:
>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
A better way might be
# echo > 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?
As far as I know, they are in limbo (written to /dev/null).
>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?
What I do to save/reset logs is this:
mv log log.new_name
killall -HUP httpd
The killall -HUP will restart the web server and it will then
recreate the log files.
Matt Soffen
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