[NTLUG:Discuss] Log question

[Bobby Wrenn]

On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 10:45, kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> 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.
I checked the time stamps. Interesting thing is nothing else went down.
Only httpd. And I was able to manually restart it without a problem.

> 
> 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
> 
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