THANK YOU EDEN! I have my production log on rotate! I am going to go change this now.
I will post the results. Cheers, matt On Dec 16, 2006, at 6:39 AM, Eden Li wrote: > How are you handling log rotation? I was encountering really strange, > non-logged 500 errors every week because I used some bad log rotation > advice from the Rails wiki. I don't have the link handy since it > seems the wiki is down right now, but I found this thread: > > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/218107 > > The jist: Don't let Logger rotate the log. > > Instead, let Rails log as much as it wants to into production.log and > rely on some out-of-process log rotation daemon (eg, logrotate). Or, > switch to some ruby-based logging solution that works when more than > one process tries to rotate the same log file. I personally use the > former. > > HTH, > eden > > On 12/15/06, Matthew Whittaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So I have updated to the latest mongrel and fastthread and my >> environment is as follows: >> >> Debian 3.1 >> Rails 1.1.6 >> Ruby 1.8.5 >> Mongrel 0.3.18 >> Fastthread 0.4 >> Mongrel Cluster 0.2.1 >> Apache 2.2.3 >> >> I again woke up this morning to my disappointment of seeing the >> strange Status: 500 Internal Server error. It happens the same every >> morning, I have three mongrels running, two give the error, one >> processes the request successfully. >> >> This error is not being reported in ANY logs. Apache, Mongrel debug, >> rails, nothing. The only thing I notice while tailing the logs is >> that the request reaches mongrel and is reported in both rails.log >> and threads.log, however the request is NOT being reported in ruby / >> rails production.log. This appears to be craping out in mongrel. >> Again this only happens overnight when there is no activity with the >> site. PLEASE HELP. Is there any way to take a core dump of mongrel? >> How can I get more logs to see what is happening. >> >> Regards, >> >> Matt Whittaker >> _______________________________________________ >> Mongrel-users mailing list >> Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users >> > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
