> The following procedure will work in the Red Hat Linux only. > First your delete the file using the rm command. > > #rm /var/log/messages > > Then you should run the following messages to create it again with > empty file. > > #service syslog restart The only part that is Red-Hat specific is the "service syslog restart". It would've been better to say that you can safely delete the /var/log/messages file and restart syslogd and leave it to the OP to figure out how to restart the daemon on his machine. There are smart answers too, like smart questions :-). K. -- There are things known and things unknown, in between lie the Doors -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
