Re: Unable to open logs - but NOT a permission problem

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On 2/25/2013 12:03 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> I have been scouring the net for my specific issue.  All the responses
> suggest that either the file permissions are wrong or that the ulimit
> is set too low.  I know that neither of these is my problem because
> Apache starts at boot and sometimes restarts while the server is
> running.  While it is running I seem to be able to kill -1 as often as
> I want.
> 
> However, if the server stops for any reason, there is a good chance
> that it won't restart and gives me the "unable to open logs" message.
> 
> I am running NetBSD 5.1.  Here is some info from sysctl relating to
> number of files:
>  kern.maxfiles = 52364
>  proc.curproc.rlimit.filesize.soft = unlimited
>  proc.curproc.rlimit.filesize.hard = unlimited
> 
> An fstat | wc -l gives numbers an order of magnitude below maxfiles.
> Currently, even with Apache running, it is sitting at 7638.  When I try
> to restart my ulimit is unlimited.
> 
> Here is my memory usage currently.
> MemTotal:  16252760 kB
> MemFree:   14894768 kB
> MemShared:        0 kB
> Buffers:     304496 kB
> Cached:      799904 kB
> SwapTotal:  8389548 kB
> SwapFree:   8389548 kB
> 
> 
> Here is more information about my system:
> NetBSD 5.1 (VEX) #0: Sun Oct 21 09:19:41 EDT 2012
>         door@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/sys/arch/amd64/compile.amd64/VEX
> total memory = 16382 MB
> avail memory = 15868 MB
> timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> timecounter: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
> SMBIOS rev. 2.31 @ 0xdc010 (57 entries)
> HP ProLiant DL140 G3 (436602-001)
> mainbus0 (root)
> cpu0 at mainbus0 apid 0: Intel 686-class, 2992MHz, id 0xf64
> cpu1 at mainbus0 apid 4: Intel 686-class, 2992MHz, id 0xf64
> cpu2 at mainbus0 apid 2: Intel 686-class, 2992MHz, id 0xf64
> cpu3 at mainbus0 apid 6: Intel 686-class, 2992MHz, id 0xf64
> cpu4 at mainbus0 apid 1: Intel 686-class, 2992MHz, id 0xf64
> cpu5 at mainbus0 apid 5: Intel 686-class, 2992MHz, id 0xf64
> cpu6 at mainbus0 apid 3: Intel 686-class, 2992MHz, id 0xf64
> cpu7 at mainbus0 apid 7: Intel 686-class, 2992MHz, id 0xf64
> 
> As for log permissions, here are all the files and directories,
> including parents, with today's timestamps.
> -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel  5955946 Feb 25 00:00 suexec.log.2013.02.25
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root wheel     3584 Feb 25 00:00 .
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root wheel     7168 Feb 25 00:00 ..
> -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel 23050427 Feb 25 00:00 access.2013.02.25
> -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel  7462145 Feb 25 00:00 error.2013.02.25
> -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel  1825540 Feb 25 11:50 error
> -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel  3246059 Feb 25 11:51 suexec.log
> -rw-r--r--  1 root wheel  5245858 Feb 25 11:51 access
> 
> As you can see I am running suExec but this problem happened before I
> implemented that.  In fact, suExec allowed me to run one server instead
> of multiple ones.  I was hoping that it would solve my problem by
> reducing resource usage but no joy.
> 
> I can't imaging what other information I can supply here but if you
> need more please let me know.  This machine takes five minutes to
> reboot so I would really like a way that does not involve booting.
> 
> Any help really appreciated.
> 

I do find it curious that your logs are so well-populated (error and
suexec.log, in particular), but that's probably unrelated to the "unable
to open logs" error.

Does the syslog reveal anything useful?

Finally, your remarks seem to imply that Apache restarts all on its own
from time to time.

> Apache starts at boot and sometimes restarts while the server is
> running.

That's not normal (as you may have surmised), nor is there any automated
mechanism of which I'm aware that would restart Apache as it sees fit.

One would expect to see information that is relevant to these
intermittent Apache restarts in Apache's error log.

-Ben

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