Len, There you go again! Unix is a great platform. But its not the only platform, nor the best for every situation, nor the end all to the computing industry. Most Windows people don't want to learn Unix tools. I personally have an aversion to command line oriented tools in Windows, because I'm a "Windows" person.
When you say, "so, don't open with an editor, obviously.", I don't see the obvious in this. 1. If it was obvious to the person asking the question, they would not have asked it. 2. Opening the file in an editor seems perfectly plausible to me. It just depends on which editor one might choose. The Unix tools are certainly one option, but don't discount all other options because you don't use them. 3. Your arrogance stifles people from asking questions. And that's why we are all here. Len, apparently you have nothing to learn from us and are unwilling to teach us from your wisdom, so why are you here? Now for an alternative answer to the original question: There are a number of Windows based tools that can do this. Check out Ultraedit (www.ultraedit.com) for $35.00US. It can open up to 4GB files. I'm sure that other solutions to this problem have been discussed on this forum in the past. Anyone have something they use currently? Todd Holt Xidix Technologies, Inc Las Vegas, NV USA www.xidix.com 702.319.4349 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Len Conrad > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:07 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Log file rotation > > [This email took a suspicious route to arrive here; Suspected SPAM (4)] > > > >Is there a method or solution to do log file rotation in Imail? We have > log > >files which are sometimes more than 300 megs. When our support employees > are > >trying to open this file for i.e. troubleshooting email problems they > cannot > >help our customers directly because of the duration before the log file > is > >opened. > > so, don't open with an editor, obviously. > > and make you imail logs smallest by turning off pop and imap logging until > you need to debug, leaving only smtp logging. > > searching big text files ( and making yourself ad hoc scripts and > scheduled reports) is best done with Unix tools for Windows. With these: > > cat.exe > cut.exe > date.exe > egrep.exe > fgrep.exe > gawk.exe > grep.exe > head.exe > less.exe > mv.exe > rmdir.exe > sed.exe > sort.exe > tail.exe > test.exe > uniq.exe > wc.exe > > ... you can do a lot of work. > > <http://unxutils.sourceforge.net>http://unxutils.sourceforge.net. > > Len > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training: Wash DC; Dallas; Atlanta > IMGate.MEIway.com: anti-spam gateway, effective on 1000's of sites, free > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus > (http://www.declude.com)] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
