Re: Apache Stops Serving Pages
by "Frederic Fillon" <fillon(at)webstore.fr>
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"Pat Wolf" <patw(at)ptd.net>, <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org> |
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Hi,
In my opinion the best way to split logs for apache is to use the rotate
logs tool, so you do not need to restart apache ......
I do not like to stop apache by cron ...
Regards
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Pat Wolf" <patw(at)ptd.net>
To: <hwg-servers(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2000 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: Apache Stops Serving Pages
> Thanks to all who confirmed my suspicions that this problem is not
> RAM. In fact the Hosting company installed more RAM yesterday
> afternoon and last evening the same problem occurred.
>
> I am absolutely convinced that this is happening because of a cron
> job that stops and restarts Apache.
>
> I had requested daily logs (access and error) renamed xxxxxx_log.date
> and gzipped. Early in March Tech Support set this up and it was
> running fine until last Tuesday when for some reason the logs didn't
> reinitialize which they attributed to Apache not restarting properly.
>
> I believe that they then modified the script and that it is now
> causing this problem. In fact, the very next morning (Weds) was the
> start of the problem and it has now continued for a total of four
> consecutive mornings. HOWEVER, it seems like Apache is restarting
> after the job and FAILS about 1 1/2 - 2 1/2 hours later. Because it
> takes a few hours to fail, Tech Support is telling me that it is not
> the cron job. However, I find the coincidence too great to ignore.
>
> Can someone give me a proper step-by-step procedure for closing the
> logs, renaming them and restarting Apache so I can verify what they
> are doing?
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
> On 14 Apr 2000, at 10:42, Pat Wolf <patw(at)ptd.net> wrote:
>
> > About 5 weeks ago we transferred our site to a dedicated server
> > maintained by a web hosting company. The server is running Linux and
> > Apache (I think ver 1.3.6, but they just mentioned upgrading to 1.3.9)
> >
> > Everything has been running great until this week. For the last three
> > nights at some point in the wee hours Apache has stop serving web
> > pages. Tech Support says that their monitoring system shows that
> > Apache is running however according to all logs web access has ceased.
> >
> > They are suggesting more RAM. Does this sound logical or should we be
> > investigating other possibilities?? The question I have is why did
> > everything work for five weeks and then stop even though traffic seems
> > reasonably consistent.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any pointers you can offer.
>
>
> -------------------------------------------
> Pat Wolf
> patw(at)ptd.net
>
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