Re: [cobalt-users] admin server not running possibly due to adm_access problem

[Gerald Waugh <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> Sometime between when I installed the latest kernel update using 
> BlueLinq and now, the admin server on my Qube 3 stopped running. Let 
> me emphasize: this is not a firewall connection problem. The server 
> does not run, even when I start it manually using 
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/admserv start. For example, right now:
> 
> [root init.d]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/admserv status
> ahttpd dead but subsys locked
> 
> There's no  /var/run/admserv.pid file. ahttpd doesn't show up in the 
> process list. It just isn't running. The regular, non-admin server is 
> running on port 80 without a problem.
> 
> After various searching though google and wading through various 
> scripts, I discovered many lines like the following in the adm_error 
> file:
> 
> [Mon Jan 14 13:45:11 2002] [error] (5)Input/output error: could not open
> transfer log file /var/log/httpd/adm_access.
> 
> Initially that file was missing, so I created it as an empty file 
> using touch. However, that reported an I/O error and indeed when I 
> attempt to cat the file:
> 
> [admin httpd]$ cat adm_access
> cat: adm_access: Input/output error
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on this? Specifically,

If the files have not been moved to /home/log/httpd
  Try chmod 644 /var/log/httpd/adm_access
else
touch /home/log/httpd/adm_access
chmod 644 /home/log.httpd.adm_access

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