The following reply was made to PR general/2031; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jon D Marburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: general/2031: logs incorrectly handled Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:34:43 -0700 (PDT) On 3 Apr 1998, Jon D Marburger wrote: > >From userspace with a virtual domain in your home directory: > > rm error.log ; touch error.log; chmod 606 error.log Um, unless you're restarting the server while doing this then you've just deleted the error log and nothing else will be written. > Apache dumps binary data to error.log for the virt dom to the last size of > the > file, then appends data normally. This sounds like there is an external program managing the error.log rather than apache. Are the error logs piped through a program? Is there any cgiwrap or similar pogram involved? Is NFS involved? > Allow apache to write to log files without needing a hup, or edit source to > enforce no-writes until a hup It is impossible to do this. Dean
