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Steve,
On Dec 12, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Steve Reilly wrote:
I wish it was that easy lol, Ive been at this for days now. system
restarts dont even cure the problem. All I did was remove all the log
files (access.log through access.log.28) written by apache2 in
/var/log/apache2/ directory thinking that an apache2 -k restart or
apache2ctl restart would rewrite them but it did not. now Im screwed,
because everything ive tried is not working. The reason why I did
this
is because for some reason beyond me apache was no longer writing to
access.log.1 . it stopped one day and never continued. Webalizer
showed no logs after like the middle of november, and if I did a
tail -f
/var/log/apache2/access.log.1 nothing showed no matter how many
times I
accessed any site of mine. I never messed with ownership of any
directory in /var. error.log shows normal operations, which im
curious
about? if apache2 is not able to write logs, wouldnt it say something
about it?
Be sure to verify and re-verify permissions. In 90% of the cases
that's where the problem lies, even though it may seem otherwise at
first.
Try the following:
root> su - apache
apache> cd /var/log/apache
apache> echo test > access.log
That of course assumes that 'apache' is a working user, with a login
shell, but you get the idea.
Furthermore check what your logrotate does. Are the access.log.*
files written by Apache itself (using a log statement configuration
that pipes into a log rotator) or via a cron driven logrotate? In the
latter case, Apache doesn't need to write access.log.1 and "tail -f"
on the file wouldn't be too useful.
What are the exact permissions of: /var, /var/log, /var/log/apache, /
var/log/apache/* (especially error_log compared to access*)?
HTH,
--
Karel Kubat / M +31 6 2956 4861 (+31 6 AWK 6 HUM 1)
Blind Spot: What Dick and Jane did to be cruel.
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