[IMC-Tech] Re: week four of unanswered request: web server logs missing

[Josh King]

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Hi Barry,

In your previous email, you stated that you were looking for the logs in
/var/log/www. In this email, you were looking in /var/www/log, which was
originally located for our convenience when backing up or copying the
web directories and is not actively updated. Is it possible that
sometimes you were looking at one and sometimes at the other by mistake?

Barry Isralewitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 05:52:27PM -0500, Josh King wrote:
> Sorry for the delay Barry, we've been plagued with technical problems
> and work issues this month. I believe the web server just needed to be
> restarted. This seems to have been fixed as of a few days ago. Logs are
> in the same place. 
> 
>>   Checking on zeco right now, this still looks broken.
>> The access and error files appear unchanged since April 24, 2007
> 
>> barryi at zeco$ date
>> Fri Jun  1 18:01:12 CDT 2007
>> barryi at zeco$ tail -1 thebikeproject.org_access.log 
>> 195.189.142.169 - - [24/Apr/2007:19:31:32 -0500] "GET /favicon.ico
>> HTTP/1.1" 200 3638 "http://thebikeproject.org/" "Opera/8.01 (J2ME/MIDP;
>> Opera Mini/3.0.6306/1662; en; U; ssr)"
> 
>> barryi at zeco$ date
>> Fri Jun  1 18:03:21 CDT 2007
>> barryi at zeco$ ls -la /var/www/log/*bike*
>> -rw-rwxr--  1 root  www  2313 Apr 24 19:32
>> /var/www/log/thebikeproject.org_access.log
>> -rw-rwxr--  1 root  www     0 Apr 24 19:22
>> /var/www/log/thebikeproject.org_error.log
> 
> 
>>    But: Ten minutes ago, the _first_ time I checked after seeing your
>> mail (about 6:00 pm Fri Jun  1, a few minutes before 6:03 pm), the file
>> _was_ updated.  Then, when I tried to access the file , a _second_ time,
>> perhaps a minute later, it reverted to April 24 state!  
> 
>>  Details:   
>>    From what I remember from a few seconds of
>> skimming the access log at 6:00, there were new entries from May 29 to today,
>> but there was was a gap between Apr 24 and May 29 in the file.
>> .  This was the time I had seen a change in these files after
>> periodically checking them (then complaining via mail and/or phone) over
>> the past weeks.  But -- disturbingly! -- even that partial file seems to
>> have now reverted to its Apr 24 state.
> 
> 
>>                 Cheers,
> 
>>                 Barry
> 
> Barry Isralewitz wrote:
>>>> Dear Chambana.net System Administrators,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is there any word on the below problem? It's been over 3 weeks since I
>>>> asked this question, and I've so far received no response (neither to
>>>> the below mail, nor to follow-up mails I've sent, nor to telephone voice
>>>> messages I've left).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      Best,
>>>>
>>>>      Barry Isralewitz
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> From: Barry Isralewitz <barryi at ks.uiuc.edu>
>>>>> Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 19:00:23 -0500
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Dan,
>>>>>
>>>>>        Up until the late-April server problems, I'd been seeing access
>>>>> and error logs for the thebikeproject.org at /var/log/www
>>>>>
>>>>> 1.  What is the new location of the site access/error logs?  
>>>>> (Apologies if I missed something obvious..) 
>>>>>
>>>>>                        Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>>                        Barry
>>>>

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