Re: Help - stubborn 2Gb Apache log file!!

For me, this problem was fixed when going from php4 to php401p2 I did have other problems then with crashing child processes, and am now running CVS, which is stable so far :)) Maarten ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Teter <michael_teter@yahoo.com> To: David Newcomb <davidn@vnvi.com>; kev <kevin.porter@fast.no> Cc: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 5:41 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Help - stubborn 2Gb Apache log file!! > Ok, here's a bad hack way of working around your > problem until you can fix the source of the problem. > > Write a shell script that does this: > > --- > mv thelogpath/logfile_log thelogpath/logfile_log_old > > apachebinpath/httpd restart > > rm thelogpath/logfile_log_old > --- > > You can't rm the logfile while apache is running > because it's keeping the file open. But, you can > rename that file without affecting processes who have > the file open. Then you can restart the server, and > it will naturally create a new log file. Then you can > rm the old log file. > > Then put that into cron on an hour interval. > > Like I said, this is a hack workaround, but it should > keep your server running without reboots until you can > solve the real problem. > > Michael > > > --- David Newcomb <davidn@vnvi.com> wrote: > > Kev, > > > > As a work around, cos I don't know what the message > > means, you can > > delete the log file by doing the rm as usual then > > restarting Apache by > > doing: > > /etc/rc.d/init/httpd restart > > > > The filesystem will not reclaim disk space until > > there are no processes > > using it (ie with an open file descriptor). > > Although this does not solve your orginal problem, > > it will help until > > someone else does. The server interruption time will > > be about a second! > > > > Hope this helps, > > David. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: kev <kevin.porter@fast.no> > > To: <php-general@lists.php.net> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 12:47 PM > > Subject: [PHP] Help - stubborn 2Gb Apache log file!! > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Apache is continually writing this to my error_log > > file until it fills > > > up to 2Gb (the maximum for Linux): > > > > > > > > > <b>Fatal error</b>: ht=081ac804 is already > > destroyed in zend_hash.c:519 > > > in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b><br> > > > <br> > > > .....when I rm -rf it, it doesn't disappear from > > the file system until I > > > reboot. The file takes probably less than a couple > > of hours to fill up - > > > this is the first time I've caught it in the > > process of filling up. > > > Anyone know what the error message means, why HTML > > is being output to > > > the log file and how to cure this problem? > > > There is no workaround to this, it fills my /usr > > partition right up, and > > > rebooting every couple of hours certianly isn't an > > option. > > > thanks, > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! > http://mail.yahoo.com/ > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >