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Old 03-15-2010
Nullifying a log file
Hi,

I have a Weblogic server running in Solaris box which is writing an out file 'server.out'

but this file is growing so fast 1GB per hour . to nullify this file and keep the process update I have created a shell script.

1 ) cp /dev/null server.out
2 ) cat /dev/null > server.out
3 ) > server.out

but none of the above commands succeeded. when I have tried the script with other file and it was successful.

Can anyone mention what is the probem here and why im not able to make it to 0 bytes
# 2  
Old 03-15-2010
check the acl permision of your file
# 3  
Old 03-15-2010
It may the problem of access permission.I have tested the commands you have given. All are working fine.

I have executed the tail -f server.out log file. From the other shell I executed the commands which you gave,the tail -f output gave the output like the following,

Code:
Line 11
Line 12
Line 13
Line 14
Line 15
Line 16
Line 17
tail: data: file truncated
Line 18
Line 19
Line 20
Line 21
tail: data: file truncated
Line 23
Line 24

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