Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:08:52 +0200 From: "DA Forsyth" <d.forsyth@ru.ac.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsyslog and apache Message-ID: <48E5EF34.13368.238F34B7@d.forsyth.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <20081002183522.7139710656DD@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20081002183522.7139710656DD@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 2 Oct 2008 , freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org entreated about
"freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 235, Issue 11":
> No need to change log rotation software since the problem clearly is
> somewhere else. You need to inspect Apache's error logs to see why it
> cannot start.
>
the previous error log shows
[Wed Oct 01 08:00:03 2008] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing
restart
[Wed Oct 01 08:00:04 2008] [notice] seg fault or similar nasty error
detected in the parent process
the new error log shows, after the manual start
[Wed Oct 01 08:39:09 2008] [warn] pid file /var/run/httpd.pid
overwritten -- Unclean shutdown of previous Apache run?
[Wed Oct 01 08:39:09 2008] [notice] Apache/2.0.63 (FreeBSD) PHP/4.4.9
with Suhosin-Patch DAV/2 SVN/1.5.2 configured -- resuming normal
operations
those error messages are repeated any time I do a
apachectl graceful
However, doing
apachectl stop
apachectlstart
works as expected.
apache version is apache-2.0.63_2 from ports
uname -a gives
FreeBSD iwr.ru.ac.za 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #2: Mon
Jun 2 13:10:26 SAST 2008
iwr.ru.ac.za:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNIWR70 i386
php v4 is installed, though i do plan to upgrade that to V5 as soon
as I get time to do it.
PS: I used to use logrotate, but it too stopped working correctly,
with apache process stopping in a similar way that is why I changed
to newsyslog. I rotate the logs monthly, and set it to 8am so there
is a chance I'll be on hand to start apache to minimize downtime.
--
DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor
Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research
http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/
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