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truncate Rails development/test logs (See related posts)

In rails applications development.log and test.log like to grow forever, which takes up space and makes them slow to grep. If I just delete them running processes with logs open might get confused. So I can use truncate instead:

truncate ~/www/*/log/*.log


Even easier, ask cron to do it for me every night:
4 22 * * * * truncate -s 0k  ~/www/*/log/*.log
to rails test truncate cron logs development log file by laurelfan on Tue Aug 07 13:17:16 -0400 2007

Comments on this post

akkartik posts on Aug 14, 2007 at 01:05
Can somebody point me to this truncate command? It doesn't seem to be in my distro.

What about race conditions? Does it risk making the log file inconsistent for automatic parsing, etc.?

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