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From: karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu
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Subject: Re: cnews - turning off log file
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Date: 16 Jul 90 14:56:35 GMT
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larry@nstar.uucp writes:
   how does one turn off the creation of the log
   file when running the latest release of cnews?

"ln -s /dev/null /whatever/the/log/file/name/is" ?

or, if you prefer the brute force technique,

"/etc/mknod /whatever/the/log/file/name/is c 3 2"