On Sep 25, 2007, at 11:17 AM, James Sherwood wrote:
We are using Apache 2.0.54 on a windows server 2003. When I try to copy the logs I get the error "A program has a partial lock on the file"
This means you're trying to copy a file that's being written to, and the OS thinks it has a good reason not to let you do that. Why are you trying to copy the live file? It'll get you a bunch of stale data and next time you copy it won't be easy to determine the boundary of the stuff you have already copied.
Are you trying to rotate the logs? The best way to do that is as follows:
1) Rename the old log file(s). Apache will continue to write log data to the old files, since it has open file handles on them and the OS is not
fooled by something so trivial as a filename 2) Send Apache a restart (or graceful restart) by calling c:\path\to\httpd -k restart(or -k graceful). This causes Apache to open new, empty log files with the original names, closing the old open file handles. New log entries
will appear in the new log files without any loss. S. -- Sander Temme sctemme@xxxxxxxxxx PGP FP: 51B4 8727 466A 0BC3 69F4 B7B8 B2BE BC40 1529 24AF
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