http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:43:44 GMT DZone Snippets: log file code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4399 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: <br /> <br /><code> <br />truncate ~/www/*/log/*.log <br /></code> <br /> <br />Even easier, ask cron to do it for me every night: <br /><code> <br />4 22 * * * * truncate -s 0k ~/www/*/log/*.log <br /></code> Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:17:16 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4399 laurelfan (Laurel Fan)