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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers HELP! The '/var/adm/message' file increase every few seconds??? Post 28352 by LivinFree on Tuesday 17th of September 2002 12:27:46 PM
Old 09-17-2002
I know that some syslogds will freak out it you remove the file it's writing to, unless you stop/start the daemon. Besides, I wouldn't junk the messages file - it's obviously telling you there's a problem, although most likely with configuration...
 

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XRCTL(1)							     Man Page								  XRCTL(1)

NAME
xrctl - Crossroads control-script SYNOPSIS
xrctl [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents xrctl, the Crossroads control-script. Instead of starting XR by hand, consider using xrctl. Edit /etc/xrctl.xml, which is the configuration file, and configure your service(s), all their options, and back ends. Then type xrctl start to start all your services, or xrctl stop to stop them. OPTIONS
list [SERVICE] - show configuration of a service, or of all start [SERVICE] - start a service, or all configured services stop [SERVICE] - stop a service, or all configured services kill [SERVICE] - brutal stop, interrupts connections force [SERVICE] - start a service (or all) if not running stopstart [SERVICE] - stop and start a service, or all killstart [SERVICE] - kill and start a service, or all status [SERVICE] - show running status of a service, or of all rotate [SERVICE] - rotate logs of a service or of all generateconfig [SERVICE] - queries running XR's for the configuration and shows it in the format of /etc/xrctl.xml SEE ALSO
xr(1), xrctl.xml(5) AUTHOR
xrctl was written by Karel Kubat <karel@kubat.nl>. Web page: http://crossroads.e-tunity.com This man page was written by Frederik Dannemare <frederik@dannemare.net> and updated by Karel Kubat <karel@kubat.nl>. Crossroads 2008,2009 XRCTL(1)
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