rm catalina.out You're right. He truncated it.
It looks like neither one of us is reading the entire message. I said if you erase the file, it's held open. This is accurate. He responded with a way of truncating the file, and that works too. George Sexton MH Software, Inc. http://www.mhsoftware.com/ Voice: 303 438 9585 > -----Original Message----- > From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:chuck.caldar...@unisys.com] > Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 12:46 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: Clearing the catalina.out file > > > From: George Sexton [mailto:geor...@mhsoftware.com] > > Subject: RE: Clearing the catalina.out file > > > > On one of my production servers, I erased catalina.out. > > Exactly how? What's been under discussion here is a truncation > operation, not an unlink. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE > PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended > recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and > delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org