bad copy error

[Adam Noble]

Hope somebody can help as i've not seen this problem before and not sure where to start. I'm simply trying to copy a file to another mountpoint. I get the following error:-

cp: bad copy to /opt/iwatch/syslog.log: write: No such device or address

This is not a space issue, any ideas?

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

seen it before, cause/explanation was syslog daemon keeping the syslog file open and the file is being changed during the copy.

Try a cat from the syslog and redirect it to a copy.

# cat syslog.log > /opt/iwatch/syslog.log

Hope this helps,
Robert-Jan