Re: CRONOLOG: Freaky Stuff: logging to rotated files

["Victor" <victord@xxxxxxxx>]

Ok, the problem seems to be that a thread of apache is screwed up at some
point and doesn't restart for some reason.

If I run a restart on the server, there is some thread that doesn't die and
I have to use a kill -9 (kill itself doesn't kill it). I don't understand
why something like this would happen but this thread continues to log to old
rotated files.

Any ideas?
This seems to be some apache issue on Solaris OS though.

> This is very weird and I am lost:
> It seems to me that cronolog seems to be logging to rotated files instead
of
> the new ones.
>
> -rw-r--r-- root root  6254530 Oct  1 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_01
> -rw-r--r-- root root  4898663 Oct  2 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_02
> -rw-r--r-- root root  5597565 Oct  3 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_03
> -rw-r--r-- root root  6960737 Oct  4 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_04
> -rw-r--r-- root root  4988319 Oct  5 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_05
> -rw-r--r-- root root  1997555 Oct  6 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_06
> -rw-r--r-- root root  2593899 Oct  7 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_07
> -rw-r--r-- root root  6483620 Oct  8 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_08
> -rw-r--r-- root root  5328598 Oct  9 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_09
> -rw-r--r-- root root  7138240 Oct 10 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_10
> -rw-r--r-- root root  3882346 Oct 17 11:06
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_11
> -rw-r--r-- root root  2978836 Oct 12 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_12
> -rw-r--r-- root root  1484712 Oct 13 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_13
> -rw-r--r-- root root  2217408 Oct 14 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_14
> -rw-r--r-- root root  6094217 Oct 15 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_15
> -rw-r--r-- root root  4393521 Oct 16 23:58
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_16
> -rw-r--r-- root root  6691546 Oct 21 20:56
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_17
> -rw-r--r-- root root  4295984 Oct 18 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_18
> -rw-r--r-- root root  3240089 Oct 19 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_19
> -rw-r--r-- root root  2105538 Oct 20 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_20
> -rw-r--r-- root root  3071573 Oct 22 10:46
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_21
> -rw-r--r-- root root  9146992 Oct 25 14:24
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_22
> -rw-r--r-- root root  6141644 Oct 23 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_23
> -rw-r--r-- root root  7340651 Oct 24 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_24
> -rw-r--r-- root root 11061241 Oct 29 10:26
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_25
> -rw-r--r-- root root  4775587 Oct 26 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_26
> -rw-r--r-- root root  2709228 Oct 27 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_27
> -rw-r--r-- root root  3149105 Oct 28 23:59
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_28
> -rw-r--r-- root root   992569 Oct 29 10:26
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_29
> -rw-r--r-- root root    35773 Oct 29 10:26 com.site.www_errors_log
>
> As you can see from the dates, the log for 25th is modified on 29th. Any
> idea why this is going on?
>
> This is all ofcourse on the dreaded Solaris platform 2.7 with latest
> patches. So I am nost sure WTF is going on. What can I do to find the
cause
> of this? Anything? Any idea what could be causing this? I don't understand
> why it would be writing to rotated logs but indeed many logs for 29th are
in
> com.site.www_access_log_2001_10_25. What did I do to deserve this?
>
> I am running Apache 1.3.20 with mod_ssl,mod_php4 (4.0.6), and mod_gzip.
> Could mod_gzip be conflicting? well, any ideas are welcome. If you've ever
> experienced this, I would really appreciate feedback.
>
> Thanks
> Victor