continues log

[bonsky]

AIXERS,
i hav this log in aix that continuesly adding bytes into it, all i want is to clear up this logs. I cannot use the vi command. I also tried duplicating the name of the log file and renaming the original file into file.old but it continuesly write logs into the old file.
Is there anyway i could edit this log file?


thanks a lot

 

[MikeLacey]

what is creating the log file? Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
Email welcome if you're in a hurry or something -- but post in tek-tips as well please, and I will post my reply here as well.

 

[aixqueen]

better yet what is the name of the log file?

http://techsupport.services.ibm.com...mode=9&documents=290605222714636&database=aix

generally on log files if you are trying to reduce them....
like the failedlogin, or wtmp, or snmp you need to know why they are growing..
Maybe a bad port? bad cable, someone trying to hack into your system...

who /etc/security/failedlogin (to look what is in it)


cp /dev/null /etc/security/failedlogin (to clear out.)
cp /dev/null /var/adm/wtmp

Let us know which file it is so we may be able to suggest better resolve. If it is
the two above, you can do as it says....

 

[christos]

you can cat /dev/null to a open file to truncate it and leave it open.
#>logfile