Martin Barry wrote: > $quoted_author = "steve" ; >> not 100% sure, ive never done it, (using deb etch stock install) before >> i accidentely deleted the logs, there was 28 of them, all but 2 were .gz >> and the other 2 were access.log and access.log.1 the only one apache >> ever wrote to was the .1 one. i made access.log and access.log.1 but >> apache wrote for a short time to access.log, now does not. root owns >> the apache2 folder and both logs. it writes to the error log fine. im > > can you show as the output of an 'ls -l' in your log directory? > > and the output of 'lsof | grep -i apache' before and after apache stops > logging? > > >> sure its not wise to keep removing apache2 and keep re installing it right?? > > it's not really a workable solution, no. :-) > > cheers > marty > http://pastebin.com/m229abd41 sorry, updated to show inside /var/log/apache2 --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx