Extremely large error_log file?

[clinton4]

Hi,

On one of my domains, the error_log file sometimes grows to over 239326720 kilobytes (228 GB) in one night. Why is this and how can i prevent this?

The file is so big that i also get the "Disk space usage has reached the threshold on / mount point on domain.net" error.

 

[Highland]

Have you tried using something like tail (#tail error_log) to see what the last 10 or so lines were? I've seen error_log grow large when there's an error or warning inside a PHP loop on a well trafficked page. I've never had one get THAT big overnight, tho.

 

[clinton4]

I got thousand of lines like this:

[Tue Jul 28 06:02:32 2009] [error] [client 174.133.177.66] PHP Warning: feof(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /var/www/vhosts/domain.net/httpdocs/nyheter/index.php on line 79
[Tue Jul 28 06:02:32 2009] [error] [client 174.133.177.66] PHP Warning: fread(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in /var/www/vhosts/domain.net/httpdocs/nyheter/index.php on line 80

I'am guessing i was hit by a spam boot and that index.php is producing a error.

Does anybody know if it's posible to automatically delete the error_log file if it reaches a maximum file size that i have set?

 

[Highland]

If I were you, I'd clean up the code that's producing that error. Those errors are the result of sloppy coding.

Less desirable would be to change the logging warning level

 

[64bithost.com]

use WsFTP on port 22 go into your /domain.com/ and download the .errorlog under error logs. be sure that you recreate an error log with the same name that has a byte ratio of 0kb by uploading .errorlog.txt and then renaming it .errorlog.

- Chris