quickesy way to zero HUGe log files

quickesy way to zero HUGe log files

[zzapper]

Hi
May be O/T what would be the quickest way to zero my huge "in use" Apache 
log files?. I usually vim them, but they've got so huge that that's a pain



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Re: quickesy way to zero HUGe log files

[Stanislaw Halik]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006, zzapper wrote:
> May be O/T what would be the quickest way to zero my huge "in use" Apache 
> log files?. I usually vim them, but they've got so huge that that's a pain

Truncate them to 0 bytes? ": > /log/file" will do.

Re: quickesy way to zero HUGe log files

[zzapper]

Stanislaw Halik <sthalik@tehran.lain.pl> wrote in
news:20061009073941.GA17078@localhost.localdomain: 

> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006, zzapper wrote:
>> May be O/T what would be the quickest way to zero my huge "in use"
>> Apache log files?. I usually vim them, but they've got so huge that
>> that's a pain 
> 
> Truncate them to 0 bytes? ": > /log/file" will do.
> 
Thanx JWTDO


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Re: quickesy way to zero HUGe log files

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 09:39:41AM +0200, Stanislaw Halik wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006, zzapper wrote:
> > May be O/T what would be the quickest way to zero my huge "in use" Apache 
> > log files?. I usually vim them, but they've got so huge that that's a pain
> 
> Truncate them to 0 bytes? ": > /log/file" will do.

"cp /dev/null /log/file" is another way.  The only reason I mention it
is that I find it easier in combination with sudo.

-Dom

Re: quickesy way to zero HUGe log files

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stanislaw Halik" <sthalik@tehran.lain.pl>
To: <zsh-users@sunsite.dk>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 3:39 AM
Subject: Re: quickesy way to zero HUGe log files


> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006, zzapper wrote:
>> May be O/T what would be the quickest way to zero my huge "in use" Apache
>> log files?. I usually vim them, but they've got so huge that that's a 
>> pain
>
> Truncate them to 0 bytes? ": > /log/file" will do.
>

You should probably just add them to the log rotater config file.
Suse for example comes with a log rotater installed already and you just 
need to add file names to /etc/logrotate.conf

Or install your own.This is a simple one I've been using for years on sco 
systems.
http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/#prune

This way they don't grow forever, nor do you lose data, until it grows old 
enough that you don't care about it and you decide how old that is, if ever. 
You could set it up to keep creating new date-based filenames forever if you 
wanted.

Brian K. White  --  brian@aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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