On Monday 15 November 2004 09:36, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Sunday, 14.11.2004 at 11:14 +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > > > On Monday 01 November 2004 12:20, Dave Ewart wrote: > > > System: Woody, fully up to date, runs Apache > > > > > > Recently, after an 'apt-get upgrade', Apache has been dying when doing > > a > > > logrotate. I have identified the source of the problem - > > > '/etc/ini.d/apache reload' kills Apache. > > > > > > So, I've changed it to '/etc/ini.d/apache restart' in the logrotate > > > scripts and this seems OK. > > > > I'm still trying to find a workaround. 'restart' did not work for me. > > Doing it by hand from the command line 'stop' followed by 'start' works > > reliably, but when I put it in the logrotate script it failed too: > > > > invoke-rc.d: initscript apache, action "start" failed. > > > > So I am still restarting manually every time. > > That is certainly very strange - I see the same behaviour in the > logrotates as on the command line, i.e. if it fails on the command line, > it fails in logrotate; if it works on the command line, it works in > logrotate too.
I've added 'sleep 5' after the stop and before the start. Maybe that will do the trick. I'll know next sunday... oops, a sudden thought: I probably need to go back and put a semicolon after that. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
