I guess, what I was saying might not have been clear. If you used *rotatelogs* (or something to rotate the logs), wouldn't that move *some_log_file.log* to *some_log_file.log.1* and recreate *some_log_file.log?* Then your scripts could remove *some_log_file.log.1*, which would create a new file descriptor that references the newly created inode for *some_log_file.log.* When you delete *some_log_file.log.1* wouldn't that free up that file descriptor and the inode which was referenced? Wouldn't this force an update of the available inodes in the file table? Using *rotatelogs or *Apache's *graceful* restart option should be different than just running *$ :> some_log_file.log *or* $ cat /dev/null > some_log_file.log*, as both of those options retain the current inode in use. However, I'm not entirely certain how either *rotatelogs or *Apache's *graceful* restart option handles file descriptors/inodes. I should probably go read some man pages... Anyone? Am I *way *off in my thinking? -> Jake On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Jake Vath <jake.vath at gmail.com> wrote: > Could you use *graceful-restart *or *rotatelogs* to take care of this? > I'm not sure that either of those would update any inodes though. > > Alternately, would you be able to edit the *LogFormat *to not include > that information, in the log file, for the time being? > > -> Jake > > > On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: > >> I’ll take a look, thanks! >> On Dec 3, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Jeremy MountainJohnson < >> jeremy.mountainjohnson at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > wipe and srm are possibilities too; although I would think there would >> > be a better solution to this. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131203/a71ee90e/attachment.html>