> 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.

Apache was happily logging to the deleted file. WHen you delete a file
you delete a reference to it.  Had your cow-orker done a 

echo "" >logfile

it would have shrunk it to nothing and carried on logging (same file).

Alan

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