Deleting a Log File

You wouldn't think that deleting a log file would take so much thought, but it has. After doing some testing that resulting in a 2GB + error file for NWC Inc.'s web site I decided to delete it. DENIED. Because...

August 5, 2004

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You wouldn't think that deleting a log file would take so much thought, but it has. After doing some testing that resulting in a 2GB + error file for NWC Inc.'s web site I decided to delete it.

DENIED. Because Apache was running, I couldn't.

Well, I didn't want to stop the processes just so I could delete the file - all those widget orders we'd lose would be a problem for the business folks, right?

But what else can you do?

;-) Share the logs directory, mount it under Linux and delete the file.

Where there's a will, there's a way. Share your solution to the problem - the only requirement is that you can't stop Apache from running.

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