RE: [cobalt-users] Re: Raq4 - Error rotating logs with 1gb of ram!

["Fred Damstra" <fdamstra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This may sound unusual, but check the fans on your cobalt.  I had this
problem about 6 months ago, and after pounding my head against a wall
for a couple weeks, it turned out it was a heat stinking heat problem.

Fred

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Yahoo
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 3:19 AM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] Re: Raq4 - Error rotating logs with 
> 1gb of ram!
> 
> 
> Jon
> 
> > > that al looks good... try...
> > >  /usr/local/sbin/split_logs web < /var/log/httpd/access
> > > and see if you get an error...
> >
> > Tried this manually and it crashed the server with problems in the 
> > kernel logs. Rebooted the server, reran the split_logs 
> script and it 
> > worked
> without
> > a problem.
> > > we might want to purge your access file
> > > how to purge... :)
> > > cat /dev/null > /var/log/httpd/access
> > > /usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd
> >
> > Ok carried this out and will monitor the logrotate tomorrow 
> night to 
> > see
> if
> > it fails.
> 
> The problem seems worse than ever now, at 12.10 last night 
> the server seezed up again and needed a forced reboot as I 
> couldn;t login via shell. Looking around there are 20+ files 
> starting the file******* e.g file9Ql4AK.
> 
> There is a web.log file that is 260mb on one of the sites but 
> the others sites (about 20) range from 1mb to 8mb.
> 
> Season greetings
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
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