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Weird Apache behavior

This server runs Apache 2.0 under Linux.  I tried to archive an access log using mv mcgees_access_log mcgees_access_log.2, then I executed touch mcgees_access_log, assuming that Apache would continue writing to mcgees_access_log.  It didn’t.  My second guess would have been that it would start appending to mcgees_access_log.2.  It didn’t do that either.  Instead it stopped writing log files and I lost three weeks’ worth.  Restarting Apache fixes the problem.

Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:48:00 -0600
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