Re: [users@httpd] Inability to start rotatelogs causes Apache startup failure.

[Pravesh Rai <pr...@gmail.com>]

Have you checked all running processes on the given system ? Since all
instances of rotatelogs.exe runs as 'cmd', try to close them, one-by-one. I
think, some of the old instances are not cleaning-up properly.

Thanks,
Pravesh

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Tuba Flea <tu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm using Apache 2.2.11 on Windows Server 2003.
>
> Apache is failing to start as its attempt to start rotatelogs fails. I
> cannot figure out what the problem is.
>
> Every time httpd starts up, these two message are placed sequentially in
> error.log:
>
>  1) unable to start piped log program ' "C:/Program
> Files/foo/apache/bin/rotatelogs.exe" "C:/Program
> Files/foo/logs/httpd/access.%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S.log" 86400': Access is
> denied.
> 2) Unable to open logs
>
> ("foo" is a service that Apache is installed under and uses Apache.)
>
> "Access is denied" is a Windows permission error message.
>
> These are various things I've confirmed/tried:
>
> 1) The foo service runs.
> 2) The user that the foo service runs as can start rotatelogs.exe from the
> command line.
> 3) rotatelogs.exe has full execute permissions for all users.
> 4) The logging-to directory exists and has write permissions for all users.
> 5) There are no security programs involved.
> 6) Getting the events while running procman indicates that rotatelogs.exe
> is not accessed in anyway by httpd.
> 7) This works fine on other machines (running XP).
>
> I've looked in the source code:
>  - The "Unable to open logs" is from server/main.c:main().
> - The "unable to start piped log program" is from
> server/log.c:piped_log_spawn(), and the access denied is coming from when
> srclib/apr/threadproc/win32/proc.c:apr_proc_create() calls the Windows
> function CreateProcess(). As rotatelogs is not found in the events captured
> by procman, it seems that CreateProcess() wasn't able to start rotatelogs.
>
> This appears to be some weird permissions issue. But since httpd can start,
> I can't figure out why it can't start rotatelogs.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>

Re: [users@httpd] Inability to start rotatelogs causes Apache startup failure.

[Tuba Flea <tu...@gmail.com>]

Thanks, but there are no instances of rotatelogs at all.

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Pravesh Rai <pr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Have you checked all running processes on the given system ? Since all
> instances of rotatelogs.exe runs as 'cmd', try to close them, one-by-one. I
> think, some of the old instances are not cleaning-up properly.
>
> Thanks,
> Pravesh
>
> On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 4:03 AM, Tuba Flea <tu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm using Apache 2.2.11 on Windows Server 2003.
>>
>> Apache is failing to start as its attempt to start rotatelogs fails. I
>> cannot figure out what the problem is.
>>
>> Every time httpd starts up, these two message are placed sequentially in
>> error.log:
>>
>>  1) unable to start piped log program ' "C:/Program
>> Files/foo/apache/bin/rotatelogs.exe" "C:/Program
>> Files/foo/logs/httpd/access.%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%S.log" 86400': Access is
>> denied.
>> 2) Unable to open logs
>>
>> ("foo" is a service that Apache is installed under and uses Apache.)
>>
>> "Access is denied" is a Windows permission error message.
>>
>> These are various things I've confirmed/tried:
>>
>> 1) The foo service runs.
>> 2) The user that the foo service runs as can start rotatelogs.exe from the
>> command line.
>> 3) rotatelogs.exe has full execute permissions for all users.
>> 4) The logging-to directory exists and has write permissions for all
>> users.
>> 5) There are no security programs involved.
>> 6) Getting the events while running procman indicates that rotatelogs.exe
>> is not accessed in anyway by httpd.
>> 7) This works fine on other machines (running XP).
>>
>> I've looked in the source code:
>>  - The "Unable to open logs" is from server/main.c:main().
>> - The "unable to start piped log program" is from
>> server/log.c:piped_log_spawn(), and the access denied is coming from when
>> srclib/apr/threadproc/win32/proc.c:apr_proc_create() calls the Windows
>> function CreateProcess(). As rotatelogs is not found in the events captured
>> by procman, it seems that CreateProcess() wasn't able to start rotatelogs.
>>
>> This appears to be some weird permissions issue. But since httpd can
>> start, I can't figure out why it can't start rotatelogs.
>>
>> Any help would be much appreciated.
>>
>
>