* Bret Hughes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Good to know also. I tried the cat /dev/null > logfile technique and
> while I did not loos any data there is about 4K or so of garbage at the
> begining of the logfile. In less it shows up as all '@' (noquotes)
> symbols.
>
> Does not look good for the cat dev/null > technique. I am going to use
> the logrotate any way but was hoping to learn something. I guess I did,
> just not what I was hoping :-)
>
> Thanks again
>
> Bret
That shouldn't happen. Odd. Well, if that doesn't work, even simpler
is:
$ echo > logfile
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