Re: [cobalt-users] split_logs apache log rotate Broken Pipe on RaQ3

[Jeff Lovell <jlovell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Matthews, Graham" wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> About a week ago, the web server log stopped getting
> rotated each night. It may be related to the adding
> of a site the day before, but I doubt it.
> 
> Further investigation led me to the apache access log
> prerotate failing.
> 
> I edited /usr/local/sbin/split_logs and added in $Debug=1;,
> and ran it (as root) like so:
> /usr/local/sbin/split_logs web < /var/log/httpd/access
> 
> It gets through a couple of hundred lines of the log,
> and then exits with the following error:
> Broken pipe
> 
> I've edited the access log, and removed the lines that were
> before and after the error message, thinking that maybe one
> of them was corrupt, but this hasn't fixed the problem.
> 
> None of the log file entries around the point where it is
> stopping is for the new site. That why I'm thinking it's
> coincidental
> 
> Thinking that maybe it was running out of file handles I tried:
> echo 8192 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> But this didn't help.
> 
> Is it worth upping the number of inodes?
> 
> Any other suggestions?

This is a known issue and a patch should be posted to the website
soon.

Jeff