Re: [gentoo-user] Apache is running but its log is not

[Mick]

On Wednesday 04 May 2011 18:14:49 kashani wrote:
> On 5/4/2011 7:38 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 08:15 on Wednesday 04 May 2011, Joost
> >
> > Roeleveld did opine thusly:
> >> On Wednesday 04 May 2011 13:48:48 Adam Carter wrote:
> >>>> Well, 2.2.17 is indeed my server, but I decided to stop it and start
> >>>> it again.  Current log files showed up.
> >>>> Problem solved, by brute force again, and without any epiphanies of
> >>>> understanding.
> >>>
> >>> Last guess - logrotate is managing the log files but not reloading
> >>> apache afterwards. Check that the entries in /etc/logrotate.d/apache2
> >>> have a line in there that runs /etc/init.d/apache2 reload.
> >>
> >> Adam,
> >>
> >> I think you got a really good guess. :)
> >> Especially as the log-files listed by lsof have status "deleted":
> >> **
> >> apache2    5288       root    9w      REG       8,44  57327591
> >> 204998 /var/log/apache2/access_log-20110204 (deleted)
> >> **
> >>
> >> Interesting things happen when a file is deleted while a process still
> >> has access.
> >
> > You mean like as in it's name goes away and absolutely nothing else
> > changes whatsoever?
> >
> > The only trouble you can run into is that new process that did not have
> > the file open now cannot find it.
>
> 	If you're doing it poorly enough, you can fill the filesystem with
> "deleted" files. The other fun one is having a daemon grow larger and
> larger because it's not letting go of files that were deleted while it
> had them open.

Does your /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 script contain something like this:

/var/log/apache2/*log {
  missingok
  notifempty
  sharedscripts
  postrotate
  /etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
  endscript
}

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Regards,
Mick