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# 8  
Old 10-30-2013
Im missing somthing here, you nulled your file and it wrote in it after, so it works!
But maybe that isnt what you wanted... What is it we are not getting? You should try to describe more your issue, here it seems unclear what isnt giving you satisfaction ( what has size got to do?)
I use this methis for sensible logs in /var/adm... but your extension makes me doubt terribly on the usage
# 9  
Old 10-30-2013
Ok, i will try to explain better!, Smilie

Yeah, the application writes it, but the size of the file does not decrement. This file has 8GB in Production right now (2 months) and i want to rotate it each 100Mb. With your solution, we have a backup each day (for example) of 100Mb. Yeah, itīs fine...but the original file keeps the size :s....100MB first day...200MB second day...It have 0MB at the moment of i nulled...but at the next time application writes it....the size return to be the original size.
# 10  
Old 10-30-2013
logrotate implements what vbe is describing using the 'copytruncate' option in the configuration file.

Alternatively, I have used the mv command to rename the logfile, after which the app continues writing to the renamed file, until I 'kill -1 PID' the process id of the parent application process, which causes it to close the log and start writing a new one
# 11  
Old 10-30-2013
@nzle: Ive explained in post#4 the move issue and workaround if you cannot stop the process writing to it...
We were thinking your file was a log, if it isnt the case, things can be far more tricky, for we dont know the content...
Depending what its possible you have no other choice but to stop and create a new one...
So what applicationis this and what is the file for?
# 12  
Old 10-30-2013
The extension is not very intuitive Smilie. Itīs a application log, nothing strange. But i cannot stop the process writing...
# 13  
Old 10-30-2013
Well yes there is something strange for a log is a continuous output from a process which doesnt normally look back at what it already has written like it seems to be the case with your file

What is in the file? what is tis format? ( So we can try to figure out something...)
# 14  
Old 10-30-2013
Itīs text plain. It contains the output of a continuos activation in network elements
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