On Wednesday 12 March 2003 20:55, Corey Head uttered: > OK...I did a bad thing. I decided my maillog was too full, so I "cp > maillog maillog3112003" and then "touch maillog" and made sure it had the > same permissions. Well...it seemed fine, but nothing is getting logged > now. I'm fairly new at this Linux thing...so can someone help me out on > this? The trick here is not to actually remove the first file. One of these will do (although logrotate should do this anyway). cat maillog >> maillog3112003; echo >maillog File says there, but becomes empty. Contents were dumped into the dated file. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
