[ale] httpd error_log entry

[Mike Millson]

It's taken me a few days to get back to this.

Yes, it's logrotate. I looked in my /etc/logrotate.conf file, and it is
rotating my files weekly. My question is, if my files are being rotated
weekly, why does my my Apache server have to be restarted each night? Why
wouldn't this be a weekly occurrence?

Thank you,
Mike Millson

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Slaughter [mailto:rslau at mindspring.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 9:14 AM
To: mgm at atsga.com
Cc: ALE; haldane at mindspring.com
Subject: Re: [ale] httpd error_log entry


> Every day at 4:02 a.m. I get the following entry in my httpd/error_log
file:
>
> [notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart
> [notice] Apached/1.3.22 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.5 OpenSSL/0.9.6
> DAV/1.0.2 PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_perl/1.24_01 configured -- resumin gnormal
> operations
> [notice] suEXEC mechanism enable (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
> [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)
>
> What is going on here? What does this log entry mean? It seems that the
> server is getting rebooted because I have SSL enabled. What is the logic
> behind doing this?

0400 is when most of the daily system maintenance crontab entries go off,
under Red hat/Mandrake. All that should be happening is a logfile rotation
of
access_log and error_log, which requires a HUP'ing of the httpd to write to
new files. SSL has nothing to do with it, that's a general message from the
Apache daemon that it has been restarted. *If* I remember rightly, unless
they
are in the middle of a transaction, external users shouldn't see anything,
and
should not experience an interruption of service.

--
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