[101856] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Error rotating logs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Dodd)
Mon Nov 30 00:40:17 1998
Reply-To: "Chris Dodd" <cdodd@kemperjapan.com>
From: "Chris Dodd" <cdodd@kemperjapan.com>
To: "Fred W. Noltie Jr." <criterion-consulting@usinternet.com>,
"RedHat List" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 14:37:30 +0900
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Thanks for the information. Is there another way to check? I'm telnetting
into my box to do everything now, since I'm in a different country than the
server is :)
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Fred W. Noltie Jr. <criterion-consulting@usinternet.com>
To: Chris Dodd <cdodd@kemperjapan.com>; RedHat List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Monday, November 30, 1998 9:05 AM
Subject: RE: Error rotating logs
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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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