Re: [cobalt-developers] anybody had a *broken* error file before?

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<kimbjork@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Through some combination of activities ;-( I ended up overwriting my
> /var/log/error file

There is no /var/log/error file on a RaQ4.  Do you mean
/var/log/httpd/error?  FYI, this file is really located at
/home/log/httpd/error.

> and since then, it has stopped logging errors.  The
> file is in unix ascii and looks to have the "correct" owner and
> permissions.  I have now had no errors since May 3rd, which sounds great,
> but isn't.  Log dir snippet:
>
> -rw-------   1 root     root       289051 May  7 21:54 auth
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root            0 Jan  9 19:24 boot.log
> -rw-------   1 root     root       769008 May  7 21:50 cron
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         7497 May  2 18:07 dmesg
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       631249 May  4 00:00 error

I think you recreated the file in the wrong directory.  Permissions of 644
are correct and owernship of root:root is correct.

> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           15 Jan  9 19:18 httpd ->
> /home/log/httpd
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root       300252 May  2 18:08 kernel
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        32412 May  7 21:05 lastlog
>
> Any ideas?  Thanks,

If you aren't talking about Apache's error log, please let me know what
error log it is and send a few lines from it b/c I'm not familiar with an
error login /var/log/.

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