According to Jerome Gasperi: While burning my CPU.
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> >/var/log/messages seems to contain a log of every Linux boot since it was
> >installed, among other messages. Can I simply delete /var/log/messages
> >and trust Linux to create a new "messages" file?
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> Short answer:
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> Yes, you can
Indeed you can, but you forgot to mention something, if the asker of this
question does not reboot or send a -HUP signal to syslogd then
/var/log/messages will not be recreated which is realy what he asked.
Its far beter to just do;
'> /var/log/messages'
That does not delete the file it just makes it zero bytes and therfor should
not have any effect on syslogd.
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> Jerome
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Regards Richard.
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