[NTLUG:Discuss] Log question

[kbrannen@gte.net]

Bobby Wrenn wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 10:45, kbrannen at gte.net wrote:
> 
>>Bobby Wrenn wrote:
>>
>>>Over the weekend my Apache httpd stopped. I have looked in the relevant
>>>logs (that I know about) and cannot find any entry over the weekend.
>>>What log should I be looking at? I looked in /ect/httpd/logs/error_log
>>>and /var/log/messages and others in the log directory. I found the entry
>>>for the server starting up but no mention of the server going down.
>>
>>Those might be the correct places.  The only way to know for sure is to look 
>>in your Apache config file, search for "ErrorLog".
>>
>>Anyway, you might not get an error message, if it went down hard.  While 
>>that's possible it would suprise me.  I would have thought you'd find 
>>something in /var/log/messages.  Check the timestamp on the messages log to 
>>make sure it hasn't rolled over in time, and if it has you should be looking 
>>in messages.1 or something like that.
> 
> I checked the time stamps. Interesting thing is nothing else went down.
> Only httpd. And I was able to manually restart it without a problem.

Gamma Rays hitting RAM has always been my favorite explaination for 1 time 
non-sensical events. ;-)

Kevin