Apache 2 error log question

hagen00 · 02-15-2006, 01:15 PM

Hi

Here is an excerpt from my apache2 error log.

Code:

[Sun Feb 12 06:25:04 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-16 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Feb 12 12:13:26 2006] [error] [client 66.249.66.195] File does not exist: /web/intellinc/robots.txt
[Sun Feb 12 14:35:53 2006] [error] [client 210.76.115.94] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats
[Sun Feb 12 14:36:05 2006] [error] [client 210.76.115.94] script not found or unable to stat: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/stats
[Sun Feb 12 14:36:06 2006] [error] [client 210.76.115.94] File does not exist: /var/www/stats
[Sun Feb 12 14:36:07 2006] [error] [client 210.76.115.94] File does not exist: /var/www/awstats.pl
[Sun Feb 12 14:36:08 2006] [error] [client 210.76.115.94] File does not exist: /var/www/cgi
[Sun Feb 12 14:36:09 2006] [error] [client 210.76.115.94] File does not exist: /var/www/cgibin
[Sun Feb 12 14:36:10 2006] [error] [client 210.76.115.94] File does not exist: /var/www/cgibin
[Sun Feb 12 14:36:11 2006] [error] [client 210.76.115.94] File does not exist: /var/www/cgibin

Now i'm not at all concerned about people looking for files and folders that don't exist such as awstats, phpgroupware etc. I'm wondering about the first line of the log.

Code:

[Sun Feb 12 06:25:04 2006] [notice] Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-16 configured -- resuming normal operations

What does this mean? I certainly did not configure or restart apache or anything else on Sunday at 6am! Something to be concerned about?

Thanks

Hagen

bathory · 02-16-2006, 02:48 AM

If you did not restart apache, or if there was not a power failure, you should check to see if there is something like logrotate running. It can restart apache at specific times to rotate it's logs. If that's not the case then you should start worry about this.

hagen00 · 02-16-2006, 03:00 AM

Thanks bathory

I didn't know about logrotate, but i do have it running. It says it rotates logs weekly, so i'll keep a close eye on this.

Cheers

Hagen