[NTLUG:Discuss] Log question

[kbrannen@gte.net]

Bobby Wrenn wrote:
> Over the weekend my Apache httpd stopped. I have looked in the relevant
> logs (that I know about) and cannot find any entry over the weekend.
> What log should I be looking at? I looked in /ect/httpd/logs/error_log
> and /var/log/messages and others in the log directory. I found the entry
> for the server starting up but no mention of the server going down.

Those might be the correct places.  The only way to know for sure is to look 
in your Apache config file, search for "ErrorLog".

Anyway, you might not get an error message, if it went down hard.  While 
that's possible it would suprise me.  I would have thought you'd find 
something in /var/log/messages.  Check the timestamp on the messages log to 
make sure it hasn't rolled over in time, and if it has you should be looking 
in messages.1 or something like that.

You might also look in the access_log file to see what was the last thing 
asked for by someone--that might help.

What happened when you started it back up?

Also, if think this might happen again, in the httpd.conf file you can change 
the "LogLevel" down to "info" to get more data.  Of course, you'll need to 
make sure your log doesn't get overly big and run your partition out of space. :-)

Is it possible your machine went down?  That would prevent log messages.  Just 
grasping at something. :-)

HTH,
Kevin