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[Mark K <address@concealed>]

This sounds like more of a linux issue.  Try restarting whatever syslog
daemon you use.  You pulled the filehandle out from under it.  In the
future, to clear out a logfile, copy /dev/null to iy instead.  You
should also look into logrotate.

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:55:15 +0100
<address@concealed> wrote:

> I was doing some tests on adding large lists of subscribers. I found
> that it made the syslog very large. 
> 
> Since I usually use WINSCP to capture the syslog data to my clipboard
> to paste the log data into notepad it caused my computer to crash. So
> I figured I would just do "sudo rm syslog" and Sympa would just
> create another syslog when I stared doing more tests on wwsympa.
> 
> Now I see that it did not create another syslog so I created an empty
> file named syslog but it still won't write to it? 
> 
> I am new to Linux, can anyone help me on this? 
> I am using Sympa 5.2.3 on Debian Linux. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason Holland


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Mark K