Solaris

Hello,

I am trying to rotate my logs using logadm, so I did the following

Code:

logadm -w /traces/mylogs.out -C 5 -p 1d -o user -g group -m 644 -c -t '/traces/mylogs.out.$n' -z 1

and then tried to test it by logadm -v and it gets stuck at truncation step

Code:

# processing logname: /traces/mylogs.out
mkdir -p /traces # verify directory exists
# log rotation via atomic copy and truncation (-c flag):
# copy /traces/mylogs.out to /traces/mylogs.out.0
# truncate /traces/mylogs.out

^C

I actually had to stop its processing because it took longer time and can see it eats my diskspace by creating a file with blank lines

Code:

# du -sh mylogs.out*
  76M   mylogs.out
  29G   mylogs.out.0

when I checked mylogs.out.0, I found it is just full of blank lines which I don't understand why!
Could you please advise in this?

Thanks.