Hi all, I have the following code 
my $fh = FileHandle->new(">>$log_file") || die "could not open $log_fi
+le: $!";
truncate $fh,0 || die "could not truncate $log_file: $!";
$fh->close() || die "could not close $log_file: $!";

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When running the code i get the error
could not truncate ....: Inappropriate ioctl for device at maintain.pl line 39.

I tried to find the solution with google.
The only restriction i found is that the file has to be opened in append mode (which is our case)
http://perldoc.perl.org/perlport.html#truncate
What are i am doing wrong?

Thanks,
David

In reply to problems with truncate function by david2008

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