Leslie In the real time environment i have few server instances within an websphere application server. This is a production environment and i cannot shut down the server to take a back up of existing logs.Again when the server is started the application will create a new log file with 0 bytes.My question is CAN i take a back up of the log files with out shutting down the server. That is with out an outage to the production environment can i take a back up of huge logs .The huge logs may cause slowness in accessing the application.I think iam clear in my question this time. Thanks Chak Radar
Chak, It really does not matter which application is writing to the log file. I understand your problem as follows: Q. I have a process which writes to a log file which grows very rapidly. How do I truncate the file without shutting down my process. A. Simply clubber the file as in (from the shell):
Q. Will I lose the data from the log. A. Yes! If you want to preserve it you can do something like this:
I hope this is helpful. Here's some more Cheers, Leslie [ May 06, 2003: Message edited by: Leslie Chaim ]
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