Re: Turn Transactions on?

Richard Spitz wrote: > > Sorry for having to reply to myself, I made an important typo: > > Richard Spitz (spitz@GANS2X.ana.med.uni-muenchen.de) wrote: > : the logfile is not purged automatically, you have to do housekeeping > : from time to time by entering "cat /dev/null <logfile>" after a backup > > It has to read: "cat /dev/null > <logfile>". The redirection is important! > > Regards, Richard > -- > Also wanted to say that you can copy /dev/null to the logfile rather than using cat. e.g. "cp /dev/null logfile" We have used both methods over the years and both work fine at clearing the logfile. Indeed, if you use "cat" you must redirect output for the command to work as expected. Sincerely, Bill Bounds VP Echo Management Group billb@qadas.com