ten.ynottony.net » log http://ten.ynottony.net He's at it again... Sat, 05 Feb 2011 11:21:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Handy Hints: Emptying log files http://ten.ynottony.net/2009/04/handy-hints-emptying-log-files/ http://ten.ynottony.net/2009/04/handy-hints-emptying-log-files/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:59:46 +0000 Anthony Batchelor http://ten.ynottony.net/?p=80 Continue reading →]]> When emptying log files, don’t just rm log_file.log as the disk space won’t be freed until the application that is logging is restarted.

It is better to use > log_file.log as that will allow the file system to free the space that is used by the open file.

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