Server crashed by unlimited error.log size - how to set a limit?

[tom]

The ISPConfig Server crashed including the two apache servers because there was no more swap space left. The left space a faulty script has filed by growing up the error.log in /var/www/webxy/log/error.log.

How could be set a limit to the size of all error.log to prevent the next crash caused by "disk full"?

[till]

Try to set a quota limit on for the owner of the error.log file, I guess its apache oor www-data ? This will prevent your server from crashing but not apache when the quota is reached.

[tom]

The owner of the logfiles are the systemusers. With ISPConfig I've set a quota in ISP Web --> Basis --> Speicher MB to 60MB but if I check it the user has no limit. Why the ISPConfig setting has no effect?

server01:/var/www/web10/log# quota -u web22_adm
Disk quotas for user web22_adm(uid 10021): none

[falko]

Is your log file > 2GB, and do you use a 32bit system? http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/sho...spconfig+32bit

[tom]

Originally Posted by falko

Is your log file > 2GB, and do you use a 32bit system? http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/sho...spconfig+32bit

It's a 32bit system but I suppose in my case it does'nt belong to the thread you put a link because the logline is'nt > 2GB. The quota in ISPConfig does'nt has any effect. And therefore it a the ordenary error.log from a users account ca grow up unlimited. So again:

Why does the user account limit does'nt have any effect to quota?

[falko]

Did you set a logsize limit on the Options tab of that web site?