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I am accumulating a log file a bit faster than I would like, and only need to keep the most recent N lines (say, N = 100000) to examine in case of a crash. I want the log traffic to continue undisturbed while early lines are truncated.<BR>
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I want to script this and run it as a 'cron' job to keep the file size manageable. I would prefer not to restart 'syslogd', mainly because it seems to me that should not be necessary.<BR>
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Suggestions?<BR>
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TIA.<BR>
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