gracefull restart problems.

Hello,

Anytime my webserver is up, always around 4:02am, I get the following errors
reported:

[Tue Feb 22 04:05:13 2005] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Tue Feb 22 04:05:13 2005] [notice] seg fault or similar nasty error detected in the
parent process

This one happens to be at 4:05, but 90% of the time it is at 4:02 exactly.

Is someone on the outside doing this to me? I have searched repeatedly for this
error, and lots of chatter comes up about the version of PHP that is running. Yet
nothing is really running on this machine.

Other than running a cron job at 4:15 to restart the server, how can I get this
nasty to go away?

Any help appreciated.

Mairhtin O'Feannag
mairhtin --- at --- mairhtin --- dot --- com (the spam cretins are now searching for
the string "dot com", "dot net" etc, so be careful out there!)

Well... that would be one thought.. .but this happens multiple times in one log
file, so it's not during a rotate.

Hmmmmm

M



Davide Bianchi <davideyeahsure@onlyforfun.net> wrote in
news:slrnd2pbdt.15e.davideyeahsure@fogg.onlyforfun .net:

> On 2005-03-07, Mairhtin O'Feannag <irishboyca@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>> This one happens to be at 4:05, but 90% of the time it is at 4:02
>> exactly.
>
> I'd say that your logrotation procedure is trying to restart apache
> but is failing at it. Check your scripts.
>
> Davide
>

I checked my cron. No entries. The rotation works "correctly", in that I do not
get multiple entries in differing logs.

The periodicity of this might have to do with someone ELSE running a cron job,
like from the outside to disable my server, having figured out that the server is
vulnerable. At least I'm guessing here, because it just started happening. Just
a few weeks ago. Prior to that, it never happened.

And, no, I have not done anything in the last 6 months vis-a-vis maintenance or
installs.

Mairhtin


Davide Bianchi <davideyeahsure@onlyforfun.net> wrote in
news:slrnd2s2ie.1cr.davideyeahsure@fogg.onlyforfun .net:

> On 2005-03-08, Mairhtin O'Feannag <irishboyca@rocketmail.com> wrote:
>> Well... that would be one thought.. .but this happens multiple times
>> in one log file, so it's not during a rotate.
>
> In your original post you said that "most of the time it happens exactly
> at 4.02". If is something that happens always (or mostly) at the same
> time it sound like something that is due to some automatic procedure.
> If the rotation doesn't work correctly is also normal that you end up
> with multiple info in the same log file (since is not rotated).
>
> Did you checked your cron setup?
>
> Davide
>