Copy dev/null to them.  You need to be careful deleting
files that are in use by an active process.  I could
cause the process to crash.

Hal

Hal Dorsman
Network Administrator
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
Missoula, Montana USA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ramakrishnan Pillai [mailto:rpillai@;CHARLESTONCOUNTY.ORG]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 6:31 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [FW-1] Firewall log clearing
>
>
> We have a 4.1 fw management server.  The problem is, it has daemon log
> files having big size (.elg files).  Is it safer to remove
> those file or
> do a copy of /dev/null to these files?
>
> Thanks,
> Ramakrishnan
>
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