EMPTY SYSLOG FILE ON LINUX


In some cases, it is necessary to empty a file without deleting it.
A typical case is to have a log file on the server, which has grown excessively and occupies a lot of disk space.

To empty the syslog file it can be done as follows:

sudo truncate -s 0 daemon.log.1

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