UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a log file daily_out.log. At present it zero kb, however in the past before i attempted to rotate it - it was 100MB. I did an

Code:

sudo lsof /var/log/daily_out.log

and it returned nothing. Since i rotated the log I have restarted the machine. But the log is not being used anymore. Is it safe to assume that if no deamon has a handle open to that file at present then I can delete it. If a process did come on and start wanting to use it would it recreate it. Also i have recently noticed another file called daily.out that might have been created to take over from daily_out.log. Is it possible that when rotated the log daily_log.out it couldn't write to the new one, so decided to create another new file called daily.out?

Sorry to write something different.
I'm new in this forum but i wanted to post a question, how do i do that?

@timgolding: It might be the same daemon, although not for the reason you described. An open file handle usually survives a rename of a file, and daemons rather complain about a missing file/inability to create a file than to randomly create variations of a filename

@victorn: Literacy, the ability to think for yourself, and deduction are key points to it. Follow this link to the "UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers" forum. On the left side, near the top you should see a button labeled "New Thread". Click it. Give your thread a descriptive title (not just "Help me" or something similar trivial). Give a good description of your problem. Click "Submit New Thread". It's really not any more complicated than creating an account (which you already managed)