Thanks, but there are no instances of rotatelogs at all. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Pravesh Rai <pravesh....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you checked all running processes on the given system ? Since all > instances of rotatelogs.exe runs as 'cmd', try to close them, one-by-one. I > think, some of the old instances are not cleaning-up properly. > > Thanks, > Pravesh > > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Tuba Flea <tuba.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'm using Apache 2.2.11 on Windows Server 2003. >> >> Apache is failing to start as its attempt to start rotatelogs fails. I >> cannot figure out what the problem is. >> >> Every time httpd starts up, these two message are placed sequentially in >> error.log: >> >> 1) unable to start piped log program ' "C:/Program >> Files/foo/apache/bin/rotatelogs.exe" "C:/Program >> Files/foo/logs/httpd/access.%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S.log" 86400': Access is >> denied. >> 2) Unable to open logs >> >> ("foo" is a service that Apache is installed under and uses Apache.) >> >> "Access is denied" is a Windows permission error message. >> >> These are various things I've confirmed/tried: >> >> 1) The foo service runs. >> 2) The user that the foo service runs as can start rotatelogs.exe from the >> command line. >> 3) rotatelogs.exe has full execute permissions for all users. >> 4) The logging-to directory exists and has write permissions for all >> users. >> 5) There are no security programs involved. >> 6) Getting the events while running procman indicates that rotatelogs.exe >> is not accessed in anyway by httpd. >> 7) This works fine on other machines (running XP). >> >> I've looked in the source code: >> - The "Unable to open logs" is from server/main.c:main(). >> - The "unable to start piped log program" is from >> server/log.c:piped_log_spawn(), and the access denied is coming from when >> srclib/apr/threadproc/win32/proc.c:apr_proc_create() calls the Windows >> function CreateProcess(). As rotatelogs is not found in the events captured >> by procman, it seems that CreateProcess() wasn't able to start rotatelogs. >> >> This appears to be some weird permissions issue. But since httpd can >> start, I can't figure out why it can't start rotatelogs. >> >> Any help would be much appreciated. >> > >