[GTALUG] File Permission Nusance

[Stephen]

Thank you for your idea.

But running logrotate on an "as needed" basis is just as much a nuisance 
as restarting apache.

During a debugging session, I may want to clear the error.log file every 
10 minutes

-- 
Stephen

On 16-04-04 06:08 PM, Alvin Starr wrote:
> logrotate is your friend.
>
> A well configured logrotate will get around most of those problems.
>
> On 04/04/2016 06:01 PM, Stephen wrote:
>> I have Apache running on my system for web development with php.
>>
>> Apache writes to an error.log file unique for the specific web site
>> that I am working on.
>>
>> During debugging the log file grows, and I like to clear it every now
>> and then.
>>
>> I had to change ownership of the file to me. I five read/write to
>> everyone.
>>
>> But when I truncate the file and save, Apache no longer writes to it.
>> The Apache error logs do not indicate a problem.
>>
>> I restart Apache and all is good again. But this is a nuisance.
>>
>> Is there a way to avoid this nuisance?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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