HOWTO for Squirrelmail in FC?

Raman Gupta rocketraman at fastmail.fm
Sat Dec 4 18:00:37 UTC 2004


>> I assume by "reset", you mean "deleted"?
>>
>> You'll need to restart syslog:
>>
>> # service syslog restart
>
>
> Did not know that, I'll have to remember to restart syslog after 
> deleting log files.   Now that I see the error the server is 
> complaining about, I gave the /var/spool/mail directory the proper 
> write premission and I'm back in business! =)


Alternatively, you should be able to clear out log files without 
restarting syslog via:

cat /dev/null > file.log

The above should work on any file that a running process such as syslog 
has open.

Cheers,
Raman




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