On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 02:24:41PM -0400, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On Thursday 18 January 2007 20:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Linking an important log file to /dev/null is kinda risky, no? > > Well it was either the linking or have it continue to fill up the partition, > this was the only time I have ever had to deal with the file in the many > years I have been using GNU/Linux. I figure if I ever need to get some > information out of it I will logout of X unlink and see if I can reproduce > the error again.
you can always recover the contents with cat /dev/null > oldlogfile and just wait for it to finish... ;-P A
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