On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:26:57AM -0600, David Wilk wrote: > Howdy folks, > > I've been admining debian servers for a few years now and this problem > is a new one on me. I have the standard apache-ssl setup with logrotate > handling standard logrotation of about 115 virtual hosts in > /var/log/httpd/. for the first 3 months or so everything went fine at > the monthly log rotation, however for the last 2 months apache-ssl has > failed to restart after logrotation. > > The last time this happened, I found the apache parent gone, with > several children straggling around. I couldn't just issue an > /etc/init.d/apache-ssl start, but had to manually kill the children > first. There is simply nothing in the logs (well, nothing in > /var/log/apache-ssl logs and the most active virtual host, but I did not > check all virtual host logs) > > has anyone seen this before? >
I've got several servers too and saw this once or twice on some servers with apache-ssl (and woody of course). A friend showed this too one time on one of his servers. The only way that seems to work actualy is to replace "reload" in logrotate.d/apache-ssl with "restart"!!! But can you really do this, it depends of your server use. I think it's a problem with direct logging to file. Probably using a pipe too a programm will be better, but debian doesn't come with such a solution in standard, and I haven't time to try something like this (restart is not really a problem for me). Maybe we will need to have a look on rotatelogs program which come with apache. Please keep us informed if you find a good issue. PS: each time there was lines like this in apache logs: accept_mutex_on: Identifier removed [alert] Child 4968 returned a Fatal error... Apache is exiting! At logrotate time, and apache died some minutes/hour afters (it depends). -- Emmanuel Lacour ------------------------------------ Easter-eggs 44-46 rue de l'Ouest - 75014 Paris - France - Métro Gaité Phone: +33 (0) 1 43 35 00 37 - Fax: +33 (0) 1 41 35 00 76 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.easter-eggs.com
