On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 23:04:35 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > I just noticed a failure in a dynamic web page that I haven't touched > > in years. So I looked in > > /var/log/apache2 and found that no files have been touched since > > February. > > Are permissions correct for the apache user to created and write to > files? Does syslog show any messages from Apache? > > Permissions are generous: treat apache2 # ls -lad /var drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Apr 30 23:06 /var treat apache2 # ls -lad /var/log drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 May 2 03:14 /var/log treat apache2 # ls -lad /var/log/apache2 drwxrwxrwx 2 apache apache 4096 Apr 30 22:16 /var/log/apache2 treat apache2 # ls -l /var/log/apache2 total 1584 -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 0 Feb 4 03:10 access_log -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 191438 Jun 15 2009 access_log.1.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 111538 Dec 26 03:10 access_log-20101226.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 15152 Jan 18 03:10 access_log-20110118.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 179611 Jan 25 03:10 access_log-20110125.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 16844 Feb 4 03:10 access_log-20110204.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 234663 Jun 8 2009 access_log.2.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 270349 Jun 1 2009 access_log.3.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 277761 May 25 2009 access_log.4.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 0 Feb 4 03:10 error_log -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 117611 Jun 15 2009 error_log.1.gz.out -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 33793 Dec 26 03:10 error_log-20101226.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 3729 Jan 18 03:10 error_log-20110118.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 34184 Jan 25 03:10 error_log-20110125.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 4350 Feb 4 03:10 error_log-20110204.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 5706 Jun 8 2009 error_log.2.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 5628 Jun 1 2009 error_log.3.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 6344 May 25 2009 error_log.4.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 0 Feb 6 03:10 ssl_access_log -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 89 Dec 31 03:10 ssl_access_log-20101231.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 137 Jan 22 03:10 ssl_access_log-20110122.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 182 Jan 30 03:10 ssl_access_log-20110130.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 89 Feb 6 03:10 ssl_access_log-20110206.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 0 Feb 7 03:10 ssl_error_log -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 122 Dec 20 03:10 ssl_error_log-20101220.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 122 Jan 18 03:10 ssl_error_log-20110118.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 208 Jan 30 03:10 ssl_error_log-20110130.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 203 Feb 7 03:10 ssl_error_log-20110207.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 0 Feb 6 03:10 ssl_request_log -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 102 Dec 31 03:10 ssl_request_log-20101231.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 158 Jan 22 03:10 ssl_request_log-20110122.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 197 Jan 30 03:10 ssl_request_log-20110130.gz -rw-rw-rw- 1 apache apache 103 Feb 6 03:10 ssl_request_log-20110206.gz treat apache2 # There is one syslog entry for apache in the last 7 days: May 1 08:44:13 treat named[5150]: error (unexpected RCODE SERVFAIL) resolving 'maven.apache.org/A/IN': 199.19.57.1#53 This does not seem to have anything to do with the problem, which is that my CGI script associated with hex.kosmanor.com/hex/bin/newdump was failing. In the meanwhile, I'll be opening a different thread because things got lots worse when I did a --depclean, which deleted the one copy of python that everything seems to use: my CGI scripts are now the least of my problems. I can no longer run portage, vim or even untar my extensive collection of binary packages. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
