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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Clear logs in unix sco 5.0.4 Post 18385 by killerserv on Wednesday 27th of March 2002 07:24:38 PM
Old 03-27-2002
In SCO Open Server
the information in /etc/wtmp is cleared out weekly by a cron job that runs /etc/cleanup, you may want to adjust this script if you need longer records to be maintained there.

Generally, you can just use the ">" to empty a log file. For example, to clear out /var/tmp/log, just use:

# > /var/tmp/log

That will empty the file while leaving ownerships and permissions intact.

Sometimes, however, you have a program that keeps the file open while it writes to the log. In such a case, you may need to stop the program, clear the log, and restart.

You can easily check to see if any process is using a file with "fuser":

# fuser /var/tmp/log

will return the pid of syslog. You can combine all this:

# ps -p `fuser /var/tmp/log

*Finally pls maintain your post in one thread. post back if this doesnt help.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OSF1

strclean

strclean(8)						      System Manager's Manual						       strclean(8)

NAME

       strclean - Removes outdated STREAMS error log files

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/strclean [-d logdir] [-a age]

FLAGS

       Specifies  a  maximum  age  in  days for the STREAMS error log files if this not the default age of 3.  The value of age must be an integer
       greater than or less than 3.  Specifies a directory for the location of the STREAMS error log files to  be  removed  if	this  is  not  the
       default directory /var/adm/streams.

DESCRIPTION

       The  strclean  command cleans the STREAMS error logger directory of log files (error.mm-dd) that contain error messages sent by the STREAMS
       log driver (strlog).  If no other directory is specified (the logdir argument), the command removes error log files in the /var/adm/streams
       directory.  If no other age is specified (the age argument), the command removes error log files that have not been modified in 3 days.

       The strclean command is executed by the cron daemon on a periodic basis.

EXAMPLES

       To remove the day-old error log files from a directory called /tmp/streams, enter: strclean -d /tmp/streams -a 1

FILES

       One or more error log file or files on which strclean operates.	The mm.dd in the filename indicates the month and day of the messages con-
       tained in the file.

RELATED INFORMATION

       Commands: strerr(8), cron(8).

       Interfaces: strlog(7).  delim off

																       strclean(8)
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