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#14569 huge akeeba.cli.log, deleting does not help

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 07 January 2013 08:19 CST

Monday, 07 January 2013 02:39 CST

user68080

Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: (2.5.?)
PHP version: (5.3.18)
MySQL version: (5.1.65-cll)
Host: (www.barbalex.ch)
Akeeba Backup version: (3.6.10)

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT: Please attach a ZIP file containing your Akeeba Backup log file in order for us to help you with any backup or restoration issue. If the file is over 2Mb, please upload it on your server and post a link to it.

Description of my issue:

Since a few days I get akeeba update messages but the update does not work. Same with other updates. Just wanted to upload a file for someone else to download but only 0KB were uploaded. Checked my admin panel and saw my quota was full: Over 50GB. After a lot of cleaning up and searching i found the culprit: akeeba.cli.log. It was 48GB big!!!!!!

So I deleted it. But it is growing at a tremendous speed so in a few minutes or hours my disk quota will be blown again.

While cleaning my site I deleted a www folder which seemed unneccessary (the entire site is in the public_html folder), after renaming it which had no influence. Whatever was the reason, my site is now down and i cant access it or the admin panel anymore.

I updated all the cron jobs but this had no influence.

HELP!!!!

 

Monday, 07 January 2013 02:48 CST

nicholas

The akeeba.cli.log file is only being written to when a CRON job is running. I would recommend removing all your CRON job definitions and asking your host to kill all CRON job processes running under your account.

After doing that, please re-install Akeeba Backup (without uninstalling it first) and take a new backup from the backend of your site. It should work. Then please create the CRON jobs afresh.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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Monday, 07 January 2013 08:14 CST

user68080

removing the cronjobs seems to have worked. I recreated them and they seem to behave now.

Thanks for the help!

Monday, 07 January 2013 08:19 CST

nicholas

You're welcome!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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