$fp = fopen('/var/mail/myaccount','w'); fwrite($fp,''); fclose($fp); that could work. I was going to suggest doing: unlink('/var/mail/myaccount'); touch('/var/mail/myaccount');
But I assume that since you're against deleting it, then there must be some sort of permissions in place that you don't want changed. Mike -- "Sex is like air. It's not important unless you're not getting any." -- Unknown Digitalkoala wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm running a script that automatically reads lines from > /var/mail/myaccount, parses the lines then insert specific items into a > database.... this is in a loop > > What i want to do is then delete the contents of the file, but not the file > itself...can you tell me the best way to do this? > > many thanks > anna > > > > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]