Re: Apache log files on Windows

On Sep 25, 2007, at 11:17 AM, James Sherwood wrote:

> We are using Apache 2.0.54 on a windows server 2003. 
When I try to  
> copy the logs I get the error "A program has a
partial lock on the  
> file"

This means you're trying to copy a file that's being written
to, and  
the OS thinks it has a good reason not to let you do that. 
Why are  
you trying to copy the live file?  It'll get you a bunch of
stale  
data and next time you copy it won't be easy to determine
the  
boundary of the stuff you have already copied.

Are you trying to rotate the logs?  The best way to do that
is as  
follows:

1) Rename the old log file(s).  Apache will continue to
write log  
data to
    the old files, since it has open file handles on them
and the OS  
is not
    fooled by something so trivial as a filename
2) Send Apache a restart (or graceful restart) by calling

    c:pathtohttpd -k restart

    (or -k graceful).  This causes Apache to open new, empty
log  
files with
    the original names, closing the old open file handles. 
New log  
entries
    will appear in the new log files without any loss.

S.

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