Apache2 error log entries without timestamp

Turbocapitalist · 01-23-2013, 12:20 PM

I've inherited a system with Apache2. It is creating error logfile entries that lack time stamps and I am not sure where they are coming from. There are quite a few during a 24 hour period and they look like these:

Code:

...
/usr/bin/diff3: No newline at end of file
/usr/bin/diff3: No newline at end of file
/usr/bin/diff3: No newline at end of file
/usr/bin/diff3: No newline at end of file
/usr/bin/diff3: standard output: Broken pipe
/usr/bin/diff3: standard output: Broken pipe
/usr/bin/diff3: No newline at end of file
/usr/bin/diff3: No newline at end of file
/usr/bin/diff3: write failed
...

Would there be other applications besides httpd that write to the error log?

linux-sys-adm · 01-23-2013, 03:01 PM

From the error it seems you are running MediaWiki. The /usr/bin/diff3 error messages are a symptom of the problem. The real issue is PHP memory exhaustion. Increase the memory limit within LocalSettings.php, by increasing this:

Code:

ini_set( 'memory_limit', '32M' );

You can also just comment out the line and increase the limit globally in php.ini

As for the logs check out:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual...debug_log_file

Turbocapitalist · 01-24-2013, 05:06 AM

Thanks. I'll look into that.