[CLUE-Tech] solution to old problem (syslog and tail)

[Brandon N]

not sure if this is noteworthy or common practice or not.

I've been rearranging my logfiles recently and came up with a simple
solution to the problem with tail dying of you move the file, or having
to restart syslog if you do.

cp /var/log/messages /var/log/messages.old

cat /dev/null > /var/log/messages

the inode stays the same so syslog is happy, and so is tail

brandon

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