[ILUG] [OT] Apache Error Log

[Pádraig Brady]

Mick O'Toole wrote:
> I'm having an issue with my apache server. The error log for the server is
> over 5Gb after checking errors I decided that I would rename the error.log
> file and let apache create a new one. Once the log file was deleted apache
> created a new error log and it too is over 5Gb in size. Can anyone explain
> why this is happening and perhaps suggest a way to get Apache to start
> logging errors from scratch.

Is the file really 5GB in size or have you just got that much space allocated?
This might be related: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/logs.html#rotation

Note apache opens the log file in O_APPEND mode so if you just want to throw
the logs away you can truncate the file in place using `> error_log`

Pádraig.