[101831] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Error rotating logs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred W. Noltie Jr.)
Sun Nov 29 19:07:39 1998
In-Reply-To: <016101be1bf0$844ea480$84cdbfa1@lap-9191919.krms.com>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 18:07:31 -0600 (CST)
From: "Fred W. Noltie Jr." <criterion-consulting@usinternet.com>
To: Chris Dodd <cdodd@kemperjapan.com>, RedHat List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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On 29-Nov-98 Chris Dodd spluttered:
# Hello all.
#
# I've been receiving this error message for a while now. I've got
# the system
# setup to email me errors, and I've had these errors rotating logs
# for
# perhaps 2 months. What can I do to fix it?
#
# 1------
# errors occured while rotating /var/log/httpd/error_log
#
# httpd: no process killed
# error running postrotate script
# 2------
# errors occured while rotating /var/log/httpd/access_log
#
# httpd: no process killed
# error running postrotate script
#
# ----
#
# Apache is running, too, btw.
#
# Chris
I don't know that I can explain why it's happening, but when the apache
logs are rotated, logrotate tries to kill the server before actually
doing the rotation. You'll see the first entry in a log is that httpd
is restarting. Obviously it's not succeeding in killing apache, so it
can't replace the logs, so you get the error mail.
Maybe there's a missing symlink in /etc/rc.d/ somewhere? So that
logrotate doesn't know how to stop httpd? Maybe if you run tksysv
you'll find that you don't have a "Stop" symlink for httpd in your
default runlevel.
Just guessing,
Fred
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