OT: Server Security Crap

[Fyron]

I am going to need a volunteer that is knowledgeable about apache/linux web server raw access logs and such to help me out over the next few days to a week...

[Instar]

call tech supp... oh wait
depends on what portion of Apache you are talking about here

[Atrocities]

Does any one know how to purge Error_Logs? I have tried using the FTP, admin, and such to do so, but cannot touch the logs.

[Gandalf Parker]

cp /dev/null error_log

Its an old admin trick. You cant delete a log while its open and being written to. You would have to shut down the server to rotate the files. But you can write to it. Doing a copy of /dev/null actually copies a zero byte file to it which basically restarts it on the fly.

A lot of backup programs copy the file to a backup version then "copy" a zero byte file over it