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[magnafix]

Hi, all.

Anyone ever see Apache (1.3.20 with PHP 4.0.6) on linux suddenly spew 10 million lines of the following junk to the error log in a 20 minute period?

Child: Íåâîçìîæíî îòïðàâèòü äàííûå: Broken pipe


After around 10 million lines, it stops, but then the error_log doesn't get written to any more. Apache continues serving pages fine, and the access_log is uneffected.

This familiar to anyone?

[fatale]

Don't know what could be causing it, but that thing you call junk is actually "unable to send data" written in Russian (if you set the Cyrillic/Windows encoding in your browser, you'll see it). Do you have some package(s) or script(s) that might report errors in Russain?

[magnafix]

My apologies to any Russians in the house!

Thanks for the help,