02-14-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Perderabo
What does "make the content 0" of a file mean?
echo 0 > $file
is what occurs to me, but I think it's unlikely that you want to to that.
The content of the file need to be 0 because today's file can grow up to a very large size,we need not to delete the file, because the server will pick these files and then again start writing in them,(if we delete the files then we need to start and stop the server again n again)files can be made 0 with this
cat /dev/null >$file
or >$file
this is done through a cron job.
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