how do i null or flatten a log file

[Ravinder Singh Gill]

space utilisation is becoming quite high and i have noticed that the logfiles are quite big. how do i flatten them or set them to null

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

You can use SAM > Routine Tasks or you can simply do this:

> /var/logfilename


Pete

[Ravinder Singh Gill]

so if my logfile was /var/june/abclog

id simply:

> /var/june/abclog ??

[Donald Kok]

you can save (f.i.) the last 100 lines of the logfile:

mv log log.old
tail -n 100 log.old > log
rm log.old

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

cat /dev/null > log_file

[Ravinder Singh Gill]

thanks

[Pete Randall]

Yep!

> /var/june/abclog

is exactly what you would do.


Pete