Re: vi editor question - thanks! one more

From: Lamar Saxon (Lamar.Saxon_at_AMERICREDIT.COM)
Date: 09/30/04

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    Date:         Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:13:08 -0500
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    tail it to a temp file then overwrite the original with the temp file...
     
    tail -n <# of lines you want to keep> hostmibd.log >
    /tmp/hostmibd.log.tmp
    cp /tmp/hostmibd.log.tmp /var/tmp/hostmibd.log
    rm /tmp/hostmibd.log.tmp
     
    Might look @ a package called TidySys on Bull's site that will do this
    for you or possibly logrotate.
     
    My concern is why the hostmibd log is so large. Should be rather small
    if it is working...
     
    Lamar

            -----Original Message-----
            From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On
    Behalf Of Leyden, Joseph
            Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:00 AM
            To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
            Subject: Re: vi editor question - thanks! one more
            
            
            Thanks! that helped.
             
            one more question,
            Another file i wanted to shorten was:
             
            /etc/var/hostmibd.log
             
            but could not use vi bec "longer that 2048 char",
            need to use existing (in-use) file to keep filesystem intact,
            so how would you suggest I shorten it?
             
            Joe
             
             

                     

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