Re: deleting file contents

$fp = fopen('/var/mail/myaccount','w'); fwrite($fp,''); fclose($fp); that could work. I was going to suggest doing: unlink('/var/mail/myaccount'); touch('/var/mail/myaccount'); But I assume that since you're against deleting it, then there must be some sort of permissions in place that you don't want changed. Mike -- "Sex is like air. It's not important unless you're not getting any." -- Unknown Digitalkoala wrote:

Hi Everyone, I'm running a script that automatically reads lines from /var/mail/myaccount, parses the lines then insert specific items into a database.... this is in a loop What i want to do is then delete the contents of the file, but not the file itself...can you tell me the best way to do this? many thanks anna