Have you checked all running processes on the given system ? Since all instances of rotatelogs.exe runs as 'cmd', try to close them, one-by-one. I think, some of the old instances are not cleaning-up properly.
Thanks, Pravesh On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Tuba Flea <tuba.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using Apache 2.2.11 on Windows Server 2003. > > Apache is failing to start as its attempt to start rotatelogs fails. I > cannot figure out what the problem is. > > Every time httpd starts up, these two message are placed sequentially in > error.log: > > 1) unable to start piped log program ' "C:/Program > Files/foo/apache/bin/rotatelogs.exe" "C:/Program > Files/foo/logs/httpd/access.%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S.log" 86400': Access is > denied. > 2) Unable to open logs > > ("foo" is a service that Apache is installed under and uses Apache.) > > "Access is denied" is a Windows permission error message. > > These are various things I've confirmed/tried: > > 1) The foo service runs. > 2) The user that the foo service runs as can start rotatelogs.exe from the > command line. > 3) rotatelogs.exe has full execute permissions for all users. > 4) The logging-to directory exists and has write permissions for all users. > 5) There are no security programs involved. > 6) Getting the events while running procman indicates that rotatelogs.exe > is not accessed in anyway by httpd. > 7) This works fine on other machines (running XP). > > I've looked in the source code: > - The "Unable to open logs" is from server/main.c:main(). > - The "unable to start piped log program" is from > server/log.c:piped_log_spawn(), and the access denied is coming from when > srclib/apr/threadproc/win32/proc.c:apr_proc_create() calls the Windows > function CreateProcess(). As rotatelogs is not found in the events captured > by procman, it seems that CreateProcess() wasn't able to start rotatelogs. > > This appears to be some weird permissions issue. But since httpd can start, > I can't figure out why it can't start rotatelogs. > > Any help would be much appreciated. >