Re: webmin and redhat apache-1.3.23-14

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Joe Cooper wrote:

> Fred Grayson wrote:
> 
>>> I appears that my problem with webmin and logging on is related to 
>>> redhat's recent security fix to apache.  I have applied this upgrade 
>>> to a second system and upon restarting the apache web server I can no 
>>> longer log on to webmin on that machine either.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions as to what to do to 'fix' this 'fix' caused by the 
>>> 'fix'?
>>
>>
>>
>> Odd. I updated the Apache on my RH 7.3 box and haven't had this 
>> problem with Webmin. What happened here, and I have no idea if it's 
>> related or not, is that my logs did not rotate at the end of the week 
>> like they always have done in the past. And I can't seem to find what 
>> broke there.
> 
> 
> I haven't had this problem on my 7.2 server (and I don't run Webmin 
> under Apache so I couldn't possibly have the first problem).
> 
> My logs rotated as expected Sunday.  You may want to check the logrotate 
> configuration for your system to make sure nothing got botched.  A 
> problem I've run into occasionally on our Squid boxes is a space at the 
> end of a line in the logrotate.d/squid configuration file...I've even 
> accidentally put such a botched logrotate file in one of our RPM builds, 
> and soon realized how disastrous the impact could be (logs grow 
> extremely fast on a loaded Squid server--they have to be rotated 
> frequently or the /var dir fills and Squid crashes).


Another thing that people with this problem might want to check is a
shortage of disk space in /var. Because webmin writes login session
information to a DBM file in /var/webmin, a lack of disk space may
cause logins to fail.

  - Jamie