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pavaveda
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 Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:05 pm Post subject: 6G apache2 access_log. What to do? |
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I'm trying to get Webalizer working (I had it working a few months ago), but I kept getting this error when I would run it:
| Code: | Webalizer V2.01-10 (Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r9) English
Error: Can't open log file /var/log/apache2/access_log |
I looked at the size of the access_log:
| Code: | # ls -lh /var/log/apache2/access_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.4G Dec 13 12:51 /var/log/apache2/access_log |
I have logrotate installed, but apparantly it's not rotating apache logs.
What should I do? |
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Apreche
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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Delete or move your log file, depending on whether you want to save it or not.
Then restart apache2.
Now make sure logrotate works for real. |
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pjp
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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With the log being that large, there are probably lots of "similar" messages that are causing the size.
I had a 9G system log, and the errors were due to my dsl router flooding broadcasts, and my firewall logging them as "other" packets. Once I filtered out those entries from the log, it was under 1M.
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