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"?
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.
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?
Is your log file > 2GB, and do you use a 32bit system? http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17028&page=5&highlight=ispconfig+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?
Yes and No, it was set by default to 30%. What does 30% mean? 30% of the free space on the disk or 30% of the hole disk?
It's 30% of the web site quota (60MB, so that would make 18MB). I suggest you upgrade to ISPConfig 2.2.22, I've rewritten the webalizer.php script, so hopefully it solves your problem.
If've upgradet to the lastet ispconfig version. The quota for a webuser does not has an effect because the the logfiles are owned by root. I've chaned ot to the user and now I hope quota will do the other things ...
It is fine that the logfiles are owned by root. The quota is applied by a nightly ISPConfig script and not the Linux quota. If you change the ownership to a user with quota, your apache will fail when quota is reached. I recommend that you change back the ownership to root.
If've compared the ownership of the dangerus big error.log form the web user with other users and I find that all error.log files are owned by the web user. After I've recogniced that I changed the ownership of the logfile. Now I find an other strange thing - how can that be? The the linited storage space ist smaler than the used space. Should'nt the quota take place before the limit ist reached? That I've noticed on the ISP Site form.
Thats not really strange if you know how the statistics and quota works. What ISPCOnfig displays as used space is the amount of space used inside the website directory for all users while the website quota is a linux group quota. If you copy now a file e.g. owned by root into the website dierctory, it will be shown as used space but it did bot account to the quota value.
I'm a bit confused now ... At the bottom of the Administrator Manual from ISPConfig is noticed: Here: ISP Site --> Basis --> Space MB: 50MB (ISPConfig counter?) the storage space for all users can be set. Right? This usage of it has no effect to the system quote for the webuser managed here: ISP Site --> User & Email --> WebSpace MB: 60MB (usage of system quota) Right?
Thats all correct and fine. The used space is not from a user of this site as I explained above. Example: We have the site /var/www/web1/ with the user web1_test. The quota of the site is 10 MB. Now we upload a 5 MB file with FTP as user web1_test and the website statistic will show 5 MB used space and the used quota is 5 MB too. Now you login as root user (root is not a member of this site) and copy a file with 100 MB size on the shell into the directory /var/www/web1/. The website statistics will show now 105 MB used space for the directory /var/www/web1/, but the quota which is used by the users of the site is still just 5 MB.
Thanks, for your explanation. Now I got it very clear. But why you told above. I mean the logfile ever belong the user, is'nt it like that?
