[cobalt-users] RAQ3 Logs & stats not generating for sites

[Greg Hewitt-Long <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Firstly, I apologize if this has been answered, but I couldn't find it, and even saw a similar posting go completely un-answered in the January posts:

Since 7th Jan, logs have not generated for ANY virtual site on our RAQ3...

The 'access' logfile in /var/log/httpd is clearing daily, but the web.log files in /home/sites/site##/logs/ are not updating.

I've run /etc/cron.daily/logrotate manually as root, and no errors are reported - main access file slims to nothing (and starts filling again), but no site logs are generated.

In case of permissions problems, I backed up and removed all web.log files using:

# cd /home/sites/
# tar cvf - site*/logs/web.log | gzip > logs.tar.gz
# rm site*/logs/web.log

Then ran a logrotate -f to force log rotation (as per the man page for logrotate), and still no logs for sites on the RAQ3...

I'm guessing that it's something REAL simple, but I've got none of the following creating, 

-rw-r--r--   1 wyb site2     3022193 Jan  6 04:06 web.cache
-rw-r--r--   1 wyb site2      504886 Jan  6 04:12 ftp.cache
-rw-r--r--   1 wyb site2      452239 Jan  6 04:55 mail.cache
-rw-r--r--   1 wyb site2      904442 Jan  7 04:10 web.stats
-rw-r--r--   1 wyb site2     3029862 Jan  7 04:10 web.cache.new
-rw-r--r--   1 wyb site2      452134 Jan  7 04:14 ftp.stats
-rw-r--r--   1 wyb site2      228413 Jan  7 04:14 ftp.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 wyb site2      505065 Jan  7 04:14 ftp.cache.new
-rw-r--r--   1 wyb site2      206449 Jan  7 04:58 mail.stats
-rw-r--r--   1 wyb site2      222530 Jan  7 04:58 mail.log.1.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 wyb site2      453451 Jan  7 04:58 mail.cache.new
-rw-rw-r--   1 wyb site2      466926 Jan 29 05:10 dnscache.dat

plus web.log, which of course doesn't exist, as I removed it!

I've also tried re-creating empty web.log files, ensuring traffic exists for the domain (loading a page and then checking using grep that lines existed in the /var/log/httpd/access file, then running :

/usr/sbin/logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf

I'm tearing my hair out on this now... (not much left)... ANY ideas gratefully received...  either to the group, or to me directly at: mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?SUBJECT=RAQ3-Logfiles

I'd like if possible, the correct permissions and ownerships on the following (to make sure I've not messed them up)

/etc/logrotate.d
/etc/logrotate.d/*

/home/sites/site##/
/home/sites/site##/logs/
/home/sites/site##/logs/*

I know it's dangerous, but I even tried chmod 777 on the /home/site/site##/logs/ folder (ownership was httpd) and chmod 666 (with ownership root) on an empty web.log file - still nothing appeared in the logfile!?!?!

TIA

Greg Hewitt-Long



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