None of the sites hosted have had their stats upated. A month ago we did install the latest security patches. And we did a server reboot on Friday or saturday, possibly near the time the break occured, but not certain.

I've searched and found others with similar issues, but no solutions. This is not a webalizer broken stats issue--I don't use webalizer (although do use awstats on some of the sites) and all sites (awstats and those without it) have dead stats. The logs stopped being written to as of 2/10/02.

Any ideas? Thanks!
Sean

Have you checked in /var/logs/httpd/ actually? Is the shared log being written?

Is the device full? I.E. The partition.

Drew

Drew

many thanks. It looks like the combined log IS working. I found this post while looking for a solution. When I tried to type the '/etc/rc.d/init.d/cron start' , it didn't seem to accept my syntax, but crond start did. I'll check the cron log to see if there's activity. Let you know if we're back in biz. Thanks!

>Yup, same here. As you eluded to, it's obviously the cron update.
A check of /var/log/cron indicated that the cron daemon hadn't been running
ever since I performed the update (despite having rebooted the machine after
running the update). I've manually started cron via '/etc/rc.d/init.d/cron
start' and it appears to be working. Why it didn't start itself I haven't
investigated yet and frankly can't be bothered right now. But fair dinkum,
you'd reckon the least Cobalt could do is actually test these damn patches!

I think I started cron properly, however when I look at
/var/log/cron

it still looks like the latest entried are for 2/10/02, the day the logs stopped being written to. I would think the quarter hourly or half hour cron entry would be present.

Here are the last snippets of my /cron log. Any ideas?

root (02/10-06:48:00-29612) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.quarter-hourly)
root (02/10-06:50:00-29707) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod -as)
root (02/10-07:00:00-30125) CMD (/usr/local/sbin/swatch >>/var/cobalt/adm.log 2>&1)
root (02/10-07:00:00-30127) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod -as)
root (02/10-07:01:00-30190) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
root (02/10-07:03:00-30271) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.quarter-hourly)
root (02/10-07:04:00-30313) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.half-hourly)
root (02/10-07:10:00-30576) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod -as)
root (02/10-07:15:00-30796) CMD (/usr/local/sbin/swatch >>/var/cobalt/adm.log 2>&1)
root (02/10-07:18:00-30940) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.quarter-hourly)
root (02/10-07:20:00-31059) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod -as)

fyi, dialtone restarted a service (or cron job) and it's working perfectly. I haven't done a reboot, and think it may break upon the next reboot.


Love those packages...
Sean