---------- Original Message ----------- From: "Burke, Thomas G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 09:00:59 -0800 Subject: RE: Apache SIGHUP's - WHY?
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Kewl, thanks. I'd never noticed it before, but that makes perfect > sense. > > - -Tom > > - -----Original Message----- > From: Gary Stainburn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:54 AM > To: Burke, Thomas G.; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Apache SIGHUP's - WHY? > > On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 3:25 pm, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: > > Hey gang, > > > > I've been noticing this in my logs off & on, & it seems odd to me. > > Can anyone explain? > > > > -Tom > > > > [Wed Jan 22 04:02:03 2003] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to > > restart > > [Wed Jan 22 04:02:03 2003] [notice] Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) > > (Red-Hat/Linux) configured -- resuming normal operations > > [Wed Jan 22 04:02:03 2003] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem > (Default: > > sysvsem) > > Hi Tom, > > You'll probably find that you've got a logrotate job in your crontab. > This is > a nice tidy way of keeping your log files tidy. > > What this does is scrolls down your logfiles, e.g. .3 becomes .4, .2 > to .3, .1 > to .2 and your current logfile becomes .1. It then creates a new > empty log. > > However, Apache has an open file handle that is still pointing to the > old > logfile. Sending a HUP to Apache tells it to do a gracefull restart > which > amongst other things makes it close/reopen the log file. > > HTH > > Gary ------- End of Original Message ------- Can anyone tell me why the Apache child processes have a problem stopping when the log is rotated? Can something be done to make the process cleaner? [Thu Jan 23 03:13:01 2003] [warn] child process 8793 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Thu Jan 23 03:13:01 2003] [warn] child process 8794 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Thu Jan 23 03:13:01 2003] [warn] child process 8795 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Thu Jan 23 03:13:01 2003] [warn] child process 8796 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Thu Jan 23 03:13:01 2003] [warn] child process 8797 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Thu Jan 23 03:13:01 2003] [warn] child process 8798 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Thu Jan 23 03:13:01 2003] [warn] child process 8799 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Thu Jan 23 03:13:01 2003] [warn] child process 8800 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Thu Jan 23 03:13:02 2003] [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart [Thu Jan 23 03:13:03 2003] [notice] Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6 PHP/4.1.1 mod_perl/1.24_01 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 configured -- resuming normal operations [Thu Jan 23 03:13:03 2003] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec) [Thu Jan 23 03:13:03 2003] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
