Hello. I need your help on a somewhat strange problem. I was trying to configure some servers the other day and of course, I ended gazing at maillog. I was always using tail maillog, to see only the last lines, but once, I decided maillog is too crowded. So, instead of deleting and touching it I decided moving it to maillog.old and creating a new file called maillog. I started one server who always poured tones of errors in maillog and did a tail maillog. Nothing. After a few minutes I figured out what was happening. The server poured everything in maillog.old. Why? Dows it have to do with inodes?

Yes, once a file is open by a process, and as long as it stays open by it, the process still use the same inode, so you may rename, move or even remove the file, it will still go to the same initial data store.

Thank you. Srry I answered so late