Package: apache2.2-common Version: 2.2.9-10+lenny2 Severity: wishlist Last week I had a very boring problem on a production server :
As my box / partition was near to saturation I had to quickly get back some space, the easiest way for me was to remove big and unused files from /var/log... Doing so, I suppressed a directory containing logfiles which seemed unused to me... But in fact these files were configured as ErrorLog for an old testing virtual server which I didn't used anymore and I even didn't remember that this directory was used by Apache. I did this on Friday afternoon and didn't notice anything bad right after that. But back to work the next Monday, I realized that all my websites had been down for all the week-end ! The logrotate had made his job at 6h30 : stop apache, rotate the logs, then restart apache, but apache never restarted, throwing a "could not open error log file" but none was here at this moment to see it. So I think that when apache cannot open nor create a logfile It should throw a warning but It should not prevent apache from running, furthermore, when I noticed on Monday that my websites were down, I first tried : apache2ctl configtest which answered : Syntax OK perhaps configtest should double check that the logfiles mentionned in config files are present on disk. -- Package-specific info: List of enabled modules from 'apache2 -M': actions alias asis auth_basic auth_digest authn_file authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_user autoindex cgi dir env filter headers include* info mime_magic mime mxslt negotiation perl php5 rewrite setenvif speling ssl status (A * means that the .conf file for that module is not enabled in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/) -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apache2 depends on: ii apache2-mpm-prefork 2.2.9-10+lenny2 Apache HTTP Server - traditional n apache2 recommends no packages. apache2 suggests no packages. Versions of packages apache2.2-common depends on: ii apache2-utils 2.2.9-10+lenny2 utility programs for webservers ii libapr1 1.2.12-5 The Apache Portable Runtime Librar ii libaprutil1 1.2.12+dfsg-8 The Apache Portable Runtime Utilit ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libmagic1 4.26-1 File type determination library us ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15 SSL shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii mime-support 3.44-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii net-tools 1.60-22 The NET-3 networking toolkit ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii procps 1:3.2.7-11 /proc file system utilities ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-apache-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org