thanks for these hints

Hercule


2013/12/11 Jeremy Baron <jer...@tuxmachine.com>

> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Antoine D <hercule.wikipe...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I delete them because jsub always append new logs. To delete them I have
> > added a rm job in my crontab
>
> So change that to truncate instead of rm?
>
> you can either:
>
> $ > filename
> $ cp /dev/null filename
>
> Both will truncate the file. (no leading $, that's just your prompt)
>
> also, you can use logrotate! :) (probably already installed. see `man
> logrotate`, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_rotation, etc. logrotate
> can do truncation, make sure the new file after a move has the right
> perms, run arbitrary commands before/after, etc.)
>
> -Jeremy
>
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