rotating access_log

suj

Seeking general advice on rotating access_log. We generally find the information in there useless but the access_log keeps increasing in size very fast. So just want to check if anyone is using cat /dev/null > access_log on solaris to rotate the log and without stopping or resetting any services. Has anyone found any issue in doing so?

TIA

ISCBorisB

Seeking general advice on rotating access_log. We generally find the information in there useless but the access_log keeps increasing in size very fast. So just want to check if anyone is using cat /dev/null > access_log on solaris to rotate the log and without stopping or resetting any services. Has anyone found any issue in doing so? TIA

It is probably safer to increase logging verbosity level, see here.
Changing 'warn' to 'crit' may reduce Log File size dramatically.