[nmglug] saving disk space

[Sam Noble]

On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 15:58 -0600, Mars DeLapp wrote:
> My guess is that it would be ok to delete it. You might want to
> recreate an empty file with matching ownership and file 
> permissions, or just do it and see what happens. Maybe the logging
> routine will recreate it if it does not exist. 

To avoid that, I like to truncate logs with something like:

$ sudo -i
Password:
# > /var/log/logfile.log
# exit