[BlueOnyx:02915] Re: /var filling up

[Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc]

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From: Phil Hamer

Hi Guys, hope you are all well.

BO been running now for a good while without any issues.
Last week my /var partition hit 98% capacity overnight. It generally runs 
steady at 7% and has done for months. I cleared down all the log files on 
Sat morning but tonight it was full again. I tracked down that 
/var/log/httpd/error_log was the culprit and nulled the contents of the 
file.
Should I look at trying to add this to logrotate so at least the log file 
gets renewed daily, and maybe keep the rotated file for a day or so?
By the time I get round to looking at the error_log file it's so big my 
Putty sessions keep crashing and I never get to see the contents. Will try 
to copy it tomorrow and ftp it down. When I null the file out after an hour 
or so there is only a few entries in the log file so not sure why it 
suddenly gets big. I re-booted also tonight just in case any stray services 
went off on one in the background.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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Phil

Before nulling it, try looking at it using tail
tail -200 /var/log/httpd/error_log

Or,
mv  /var/log/httpd/error_log   ~admin
#then
/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

In your php.ini  make  sure your php errors section says
ignore_repeated_errors = On


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Ken Marcus
Ecommerce Web Hosting by
Precision Web Hosting, Inc.
http://www.precisionweb.net