Unable to trim mail log via SAM

[frederick hannah]

/var/adm/syslog/mail.log needs to be trimmed. I shutdown sendmail and attempted, via SAM, to reduce mail.log to its recommended size, but SAM responds about a process still holding te file open. Sendmail is down so i dont see how this is possible and I do want to reduce mail.log's size

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

The heck with SAM. Simply:

# cp /var/adm/syslog/mail.log /var/adm/syslog.OLDmail.log

# cat /dev/null > /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

Now keep, discard or 'vi' the 'OLDmail.log' to any size you want.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Always better to do it outside sam

> /var/adm/syslog/mail.log

Simple, direct effective.

If log use is heavy this may fail. Then:

/sbin/init.d/sendmail stop
> /var/adm/syslog/mail.log
/sbin/init.d/sendmail start

SEP

[frederick hannah]

Thanks guys, but too late as I have used SAM (it worked, but not the great results I expected). I have learned not to use SAM to trim mail.log