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 ]