On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I was looking at '/var/log/mail.log' > > always use less to view log files. vim makes a copy of the files you > open, and that could be a lot of unnecesseary IO for big log files. I wanted to really just clear all my log errors and mess from testing over the night and start fresh. This is really why I opened it in Vim. Just after I removed all the errors from the night before, it no longer wrote to the log file and more once saved. > You can for example compare the inode of the file you see in the filesystem > ls -i /var/log/mail.log > and the node reported by "lsof -p <THE PID OF POSTFIX HERE>" Interesting! [root@mail postfix]# ls -i /var/log/mail.log 15828 /var/log/mail.log [root@mail postfix]# ps -ef | grep -i "postfix" root 24030 1 0 08:37 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/postfix/master postfix 24298 24030 0 10:06 ? 00:00:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u postfix 24299 24030 0 10:06 ? 00:00:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u root 24311 24270 0 10:10 pts/1 00:00:00 grep -i postfix [root@mail postfix]# lsof -p 24030 First, which is the correct PID? Is it the 'master' PID? Secondly, I don't appear to have the command in my system for some reason. Perhaps I need to install the utility.
