larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) (07/15/90)
how does one turn off the creation of the log
file when running the latest release of cnews?
--
Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA
uucp: iuvax!ndmath!nstar!larry -or- larry@nstar
Public Access Unix Site (219) 289-3745 (multiline)karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu (07/16/90)
larry@nstar.uucp writes:
how does one turn off the creation of the log
file when running the latest release of cnews?
"ln -s /dev/null /whatever/the/log/file/name/is" ?
or, if you prefer the brute force technique,
"/etc/mknod /whatever/the/log/file/name/is c 3 2"henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (07/17/90)
In article <1990Jul15.150345.7308@nstar.uucp> larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder) writes: >how does one turn off the creation of the log >file when running the latest release of cnews? There is no off-the-shelf provision for this, although if your system has symbolic links you can symlink log to /dev/null. An alternative is just to run a cron job to truncate the log, say, once an hour. -- NFS: all the nice semantics of MSDOS, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology and its performance and security too. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry