The usual safe idiom is to: cat /dev/null > your_log_file
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Dan Santner <[email protected]> wrote: > I know that sounds silly but....I've done that kind of thing before and > really regretted it afterwards. So I'm asking you all. Can I simply whack > the couch.log file and trust that couch will handle that gracefully? > > I've been using the same couchdb process for over a year now (maybe > restarted it like 4 times) locally and noticed my log file is over 2G! > > Thanks, > Dan.
