[ale] inode change after vi a file ?

[kaboom at oobleck.net (Chris Ricker)]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Jerry Yu wrote:

> for sysadmin/DBA or alike out there,  use 'less' instead of 'vi' when
> checking an important server log file under Linux for now. otherwise an
> accidental save may force you to restart the server to establish association
> to the new inum of the log files.  For Apache, 'graceful' will do. For
> Sybase ASE, 'graceful' is not available!

Or use view, as long as you're not in the bad habit of always putting a ! 
on all vi commands....

later,
chris