I use this script. You can replace 400 by the number of lines you want to keep. You can put in in your crontab too <script> #!/bin/sh VARDIR=/var/zope tail -n 400 $VARDIR/Z2.log > $VARDIR/newZ2.log mv $VARDIR/newZ2.log $VARDIR/Z2.log </script> Other option: you could use the logrotate facility too (man logrotate) HTH --Gilles ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pieter Claerhout" <Pieter_Claerhout@CreoScitex.com> To: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 12:12 PM Subject: [Zope] Purging Z2.log

Hello,

is there an easy way to purge the logfile without stopping the Zope process. I'm using AWStats for the statistics of my website, and have it sheduled to run every hour. Since it only processes the new lines, I would like to purge the logfile after each update of the statistics, to speed up the processing. Of course I don't want to stop Zope to do so.

Is there a trick to do this?

By the way, anyone ever thought of a Zope based statistics software?

Cheers,

Pieter

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