Stuck at the office

[sylvar]

Hmm. The web server hasn't logged anything since yesterday.

So I chown /var/log/httpd from root (hmm, I must have messed that up yesterday) to the user in httpd.conf, /sbin/service httpd restart, and...

Hmm. Now the web server is down. This is not good.

I called Red Hat, and they asked me to run sysreport and upload a tarball of /var/log. Sysreport took ages to run and ended up with a 700MB file. Which is roughly the size of the /var/log tarball, too. This is going to take a while to upload, and I only hope their Web application doesn't poop out while I'm uploading these huge files one at a time...

Comments

[ximinez]

Did you try the "-X" option to httpd yet? RTFM. :)

[vartan.livejournal.com]

hmm, I think changing the owner of the logs might make it wiggy, I have had problems like that before. We had a problem sorta similar to that, and it turned out that for some reason the logs weren't getting rotated because cron was screwed up and we happened to be getting hammered by lots of people trying to exploit buffer overflow oversized URL frontpage vulnerability crap which filled up the logs and then once they got too big it just stopped logging. which let to me screwing with the logs. which led to me screwing things up more.

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll be a silly son of a bitch. I tried httpd -X and it ran fine. Ctrl-C, /sbin/service httpd start, and it's working. I guess there was some sort of PID lockfile or something that got cleared up.

[ximinez]

Glad to be of service. ;)