[Info-ingres] ingres log files

[Steve]

On Friday, 8 February 2002 10:41:19 UTC+11, Martin Bowes  wrote:
> Hi Yuandan,
> > 
> > Hi,
> > As a result of accumulation, two of the ingres log files: iircp.log and
> > errlog.log, become extremely big files. I would like to clean up the two
> > files and put the contents of the two files in backup. Could some of you
> > advise if any impact on the ingres performance after cleanup?
> 
>     Shut the installation down. Move the logs aside (ie rename them soemthing
>     else) and then restart. The system will simply make new log files when it
>     requires. There will be no performance impact of this other than the
>     shutdown itself.
> 
>     Given you are running DUNIX you could cat /dev/null > errlog.log while the
>     system is running and (at worst) simply create a sparse file. But I don't
>     see much point to this.
> 
> > 
> > In addition, how to check the status of ingres license?  My system is
> > UNIX osf1 V4.0 878 (alpha) .
> 
>     But are you running IngresII or OpenIngres or what?
> 
>     With IngresII check your ca.olf.
>     With Other try ingchkdate. If there is no output your auth string has a
>     year or more to run.
> 
>     Martin Bowes
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > Yuandan
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
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Just want to confirm this applies to the archiver and recover logs also? I mean will Ingres create them on startup if they do not exist? 

Thanks
Steve