httpd-log in CERN server: newbie question

[Martin Cohen]

What your command did is restart the demon. If what you want to do is 
empty the old file (but continue logging in it, i.e. start over) the 
command would be 

cp /dev/null /[full-address-to/httpd-log-name]

That preserves the file but makes its size 0 bytes.

Martin J. Cohen                                 mcohen at stmarys-ca.edu
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On Mon, 16 Dec 1996, Miriam Bobkoff wrote:

> We are running the CERN server on the City's new proxy server. The httpd-log
> is getting very large. Following the directions in Lincoln Stein's book, I
> sent a
> command 'kill -HUP ###' where ### was the httpd-pid. 
> 
> The httpd-errors log says it has successfully restarted, and everything is
> working. But it did not start a new httpd-log as I expected it to: it's
> still adding to the old one. What have I missed?
> 
> I made a cp of the whole httpd-log file before I tried the kill command.
> Shall I just edit the (still growing) for-reals file and delete the first
> gazillion lines to eliminate all the old entries; then work with the copy to
> experiment with log analysis?  
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Miriam (gee, I hope I can't destroy this machine with a keystroke) Bobkoff
> 
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