[101099] in RedHat Linux List
NFS/filesystem problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Banghart)
Tue Nov 24 16:11:51 1998
Reply-To: <john@desupernet.net>
From: "John Banghart" <john@desupernet.net>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:01:21 -0500
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Redhat 5.1, 2.0.33, on Intel Pentium 233MMX, 96 Meg RAM.
I'm running two webservers that share common filespace via NFS on a Network
Appliance box. These servers share the /htdocs and /logs area. One server
is running stock Apache, the other Stronghold. The problem I'm about to
detail exists on both servers on many different sites. I should point out
that there are no duplicate sites on the servers. They share the filespace,
but don't duplicate anything else. Also, this has occured across multiple
versions of both Apache and Stronghold.
Anyway, logfiles for my web sites keep getting huge amounts of "null"
characters at the beginning of them. Usually, this results in at least
doubling the files size. It also results in my web statistics program not
being able to read the files. Currently, I am dealing with the situation by
stripping out the null characters and running the stats on the temporary
file.
I have tried shutting down the server, cleaning up the logfile, and then
restarting the server. Immediately or soon after, all the null characters
appear in the file.
What's odd is that if I run a 'du' on the file, it shows a completely
different file size, one that closely matches the file size after being
stripped. 'ls -l' and 'df' report the large "null included" size however.
So, I'm quite confused and lost, and it's eating up huge amounts of my
availabe space on the NFS server.
If anyone out there has seen, heard of, had a vision about, or otherwise
encountered this problem, please let me know what you did to remedy it. I
will happily provide addtional information if required.
Thank you.
--
John Banghart
Web Services Manager
D&E SuperNet
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