Hi Mick,
We are using logrotate to rotate the logs using the following conf file;
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/var/log/apache2/*.log {
weekly
missingok
rotate 12
compress
# delaycompress
notifempty
create 640 www-data www-data
sharedscripts
postrotate
if [ -f "`. /etc/apache2/envvars ; echo
${APACHE_PID_FILE:-/var/run/apache2.pid}`" ]; then
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload > /dev/null
fi
endscript
}
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The log that was just rolled doesn't continue to grow. It's gzip'd and then
sits there. A new log is created but then doesnt grow. The listing shows this;
-rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data 0 2009-09-27 06:38 access.log
-rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data 1119157 2009-09-27 00:19 access.log.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data 167234 2009-09-22 05:25 access.log.2.gz
Any ideas ?
Olly
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mick Sheppard [mailto:mick.shepp...@cpp.co.uk]
Sent: 29 September 2009 09:05
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: RE: [us...@httpd] 0 byte logs
Hi Olly,
> From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com]
> Sent: 28 September 2009 19:19
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: [us...@httpd] 0 byte logs
>
> Hi,
>
> We've seen a problem for a while on our ubuntu web server whereby apache
> starts generating 0 byte logs.
> This applies to the access logs for the individual sites.
>
> The only solution we have found is a quick 'apache2ctl graceful' and the logs
> start being generated
> normally again...for a few days until the whole thing happens again.
>
A couple of questions:
1) What are you using to rotate the apache log files?
2) When you rotate them does the first one rotated continue to grow, or are you
compressing it?
The reason for the questions is that it sounds as if your rotation mechanism is
moving the old log files away and then creating a new, empty one. Unless you
tell it Apache will continue to write to the old log file as it will have it
open. When you give the 'graceful' command Apache restarts and re-opens the log
file thus writing to the new logs.
Regards,
Mick Sheppard
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