I've mentioned this problem a couple of times before but never in a
message dedicated to it and never with a whole lot of detail. Here goes
with the current situation:
The main gist of what I'm saying will be this: Is it possible for, as I
for some reason think I head on here, Apache to just stop logging for
sites when it reaches a certain activity level?
We host several websites, many of which require access_logs to be kept.
Every now and then, most recently about two weeks ago, a site will just
stop logging. In this most recent case it was after a coworker deleted and
touched the access_log file, giving it the exact same ownership and
permisions that it had before. The only apparent difference was that it
had simply stopped logging.
I checked permissions and ownership on each of the site directories in
question and they are exactly the same as those of sites that are logging
just fine. I checked their virtualhost entries in httpd.conf and they are
exactly the same except of course for the directory to which they point,
but I pointed a working host to the logs directory of a host that didn't
work and logging went on perfectly. I even went so far as to remove and
recreate one of the non-logging hosts using the same scripts that we use
to create all of our hosted sites. Still no luck.
Desperate to eliminate possibilities, I tried pointing a non-logging
domain to a new ip and then accessed it several times from a system
using our nameserver. Still nothing logged. I created a brand new
host and pointed it to that IP. Still nothing, which leads me to believe
that httpd has not only stopped logging for these hosts, but all future
ones (I must admit, however, that I was tired a frazzled by that point and
could have just mis-typed something).
When I restart httpd, no complaints are made about the contents of
httpd.conf, the access_log and error_log files are created by apache so I
know it's reading that part correctly. Ipfwadm -A -l shows usage of the
site and apache is, of course, serving everything properly. IT'S JUST NOT
LOGGING.
So it's not permissions.
It doesn't appear to be syntax in the httpd.conf.
It's independant of the IP address assigned to a domain that's decided
not to log.
I'm totaly out of ideas. We've done everything but just reboot the server
and hope that that fixes it, something I'd rather not do.
Suggestions, anyone?
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