How to rotate a text file

[jmiturbe]

Hello,

We are redirecting the standard output of an application to a text file. We would like to rotate this "log" file.

Actually we copy the file content to another file and then execute a cat /dev/null >> NAME_OF_THE_LOG_FILE

The problem is that the application dosn't "start" writing on the first line. It continues writing after the last line number wroten before the execution of cat /dev/null.

Any ideas on how to solve this issue.

Thanks in advance,

Joseba M. Iturbe

 

[coffeysm]

Or cp /dev/null /your/path/to/filename