At 12:59 17.09.2001 +0200, Andreas Rittershofer wrote:
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
I don't create new log files. It is Suse with some (which??) cronjobs switching log files whenever they grow to a certain size, I guess. I think the intention is OK, but still nothing is written to the new log file.
mfg ar
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