Package: apache2.2-common Version: 2.2.3-4 Severity: normal There are two differents problems, in /etc/init.d/apache2 restart function you use sleep 10 between start and stop, but 10 seconds is not enough in the case where some childs cannot be killed easily. So it tries to stop the server, and tries to start it before it is stopped so it is not able to start the server. This is not very important if no script are calling restart.
But /etc/logrotate.d/apache2 does. A good idea should be to use reload instead of restart. In the first case you may kill legitimate process and you do at least ten seconds of service outage (or more if the server doesn't restart...) which may be very bad on high availability services, in the second case you may loose some lines of logs and it's all. (needless to say that this happened to me several times) It may be an easy DOS attack, you just have to overload an apache server at 6:25 AM, with the overload it is going to take more than 10 seconds to stop and it will not restart, enjoy ! -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.1-grsec Locale: LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO-8859-15 (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages apache2.2-common depends on: ii apache2-utils 2.2.3-4 utility programs for webservers ii libmagic1 4.17-5etch1 File type determination library us ii lsb-base 3.1-23.1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii mime-support 3.39-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap ii net-tools 1.60-17 The NET-3 networking toolkit ii procps 1:3.2.7-3 /proc file system utilities apache2.2-common recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
