On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 09:44:43AM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: > François Cerbelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you can "truncate" the file with the folowing bash line : > > > /var/log/mail.err > > > or the following portable line : > > echo > /var/log/mail.err > > Neither of those will work in this instance, as the file is held open > for writing. On the next write, the data will be written into the file > at the same place as if you hadn't truncated it (all the preceding data > will appear to be NULLs).
Are you sure? The above method works fine for me. > > Incidentally, "echo > x" writes a newline to the file, so it's not zero > length. You might like to use ": > x" instead. Right. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
