Re: [TUHS] Binary log files

John Cowan wrote in <CAD2gp_RLYVFx8CK6PAiSrPV8BvSrYHGiB2WPxQGJO=Bh-x3nRA(a)mail.gmail.com>: |On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 9:42 AM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen(a)sdaoden.eu> wrote: | |And how did you handle it? | |The simplest way to truncate the file is with truncate or just ">file", |since writes are small enough to be atomic. The sa utility, which also Hm, ok, sure. I thought maybe, you know. Availability of some weeks or the quarter of a year is a good thing (tm). |goes back to v7, will summarize process accounting data and write it to a |different file; it can then report on either unsummarized data or |summarized data before unsummarized data). Unfortunately Linux has broken |the wtmp/utmp convention of "no logfile, no logging", so a cron job to |truncate wtmp is your only man. Too bad weather to make something out of that. The fruits of South Africa were so sweet that we hoped for a good summer. Well 2000 KM more southern it is, but that Island low pressure area now lies in front of Ireland i think, what a mess. Yes the script is not atomic, but good enough for very occasional usage by a logged in administrator. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)