Re: Urgent : Unix Administrator Question

From: rwilson@ntsource.com (Rob Wilson) > >Obnoxio The Clown (obnoxio@hotmail.com) wrote: > >: From: "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@hotmail.com> >: > >: >Check your onconfig file for the MSGFILE parameter. I'm guessing this is >: >"just" your online.log equivalent. If so, you can back it to tape next >time >: >you shut the server down and then >: > >: >>transaction.log > >: Bloody hotmail: it changes the > when it displays messages. What I meant >it >: to show was: > >: cat /dev/null > transaction.log > >Ah but maybbe hotmail new what it was doing? " > transaction.log" is >the same thing! (well, produces the same results) You're not a hotmail user are you? If you have a ">" at the start of a line, _hotmail_ translates it into a greyed-out pipe thingy. I am fully aware that the two statements are equivalent, I merely wanted to save some poor snotmail user from undo confusion. :-) ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com