Re: [ossig] Apache Restart - was 2 Malaysian organisations among 50 best uptimes

[Yeak Nai Siew <yeak@www.net.my>]

Wrong word again... here to rephrase.

The Apache is restarted in order to get the log rotated. Check 
/etc/logrotate.d/apache and notice that:
    postrotate
        /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid 2>/dev/null` 2> 
/dev/null || true
    endscript

Next, check /var/log/httpd/error.log. You should see apache restarted 
around 4 AM.

You can change the "kill -HUP" to apachectl graceful. But I tested... 
it is not that reliable when I have many modules run together with 
apache, especially Chilisoft ASP module.

I end up modifying CustomLog in httpd.conf and use "rotatelogs". It is 
documented inside this package released under GPL (also do automatic 
web statistic generation using webalizer),

    http://www.net.my/pub/contribs/wwwstats-2.0.2.tar.gz

Thanks.


On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 01:11  PM, Yusmar Yahaya wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Yeak Nai Siew wrote:
>
> > reliably tell you exactly when is a system rebooted. FYI, I notice 
> > that
> > the default installation of Apache Web Server for Red Hat Linux is
> > rebooted EVERY DAY just to do log rotation.
> I'm not familiar with the above product, but could you confirm - 
> rebooted
> the machine or restarted Apache?
>
> it seems kinda strange to me that a server needs to be rebooted for
> rotating logs.
>
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