reality check please...

[John (EBo) David]

Brian Cluff wrote:
> 
> > I think I figured it out.  If my guess is right, the HTTPD opens the
> > error log once and caches the file/stream pointer.  When I rename the
> > file the inode is not changed, just the file name in the directory.  So,
> > the errors keep getting dumped in the error_log_DATE file and my filter
> > has been checking against the new empty error_log file...
> >
> > Does this sound like a reasonable scenerio to those HTTPD guru's out
> > there?  If so, I know how to fix the problem, just have to rewrite the
> > script...
> 
> That is exactly what will happen if you move a file and don't tell apache
> to reopen the log files.

yep...  That is what I figured.

> You might also consider that out of habit you opened that log file with an
> editor and then again out of habit wrote it back.  I accidentally do that
> from time to time.  I do get a filename~ file so that I know when I did
> that though. :)

That was my first thought, but then I realized that I was so busy with
other things that I have not played with the logs for a few days before
the date stamp...

  EBo --