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

[Stuart Levy]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 06:13:47PM -0500, Barry Isralewitz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 05:52:27PM -0500, Josh King wrote:
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> > 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!  

Hmm, it looks as though "/var/www/log" isn't pointing to
the right place.  A "locate thebikeproject.org_access.log"
turns up a couple of files with that name:

-rw-rw-r--  1 root    www     208671 Jun  1 18:21 /mnt/xtra/var/log/www/thebikeproject.org_access.log
-rw-rwxr--  1 root    www       2313 Apr 24 19:32 /mnt/xtra/www/log/thebikeproject.org_access.log
(plus another in Barry's home dir)

But, /var/www/log ends up pointing to /mnt/xtra/www/log,
which isn't the current log file location.  Specifically
   /var/www -> /mnt/xtra/www
so /var/www/log -> /mnt/xtra/www/log

So you could push the stale logs aside and add a sym link, like

   mv /mnt/xtra/www/log /mnt/xtra/www/stale-logs
   ln -s ../var/log/www /mnt/xtra/www/log

or just tell everyone to look in /mnt/xtra/var/log/www/...