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Re: [suse-security] SuSE is not logging anymore..
  • From: "Andreas Rittershofer" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:59:27 +0200
  • Message-id: <200109171052.MAA89722@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 17 Sep 01, at 9:37, r.hegewald wrote:

> Whenever some program (or script?) compresses /var/log/messages a new
> messages file is created but always with 0 values. Nothing is written to

You should not create a new log file but erase its content with
cat /dev/null > /som/log/file


mfg ar

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