Apache crashes

[Scott Haneda]

On Oct 8, 2009, at 8:41 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>> This thread I just found sheds more light on it:
>> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-users/200810.mbox/%3C5249c07e0810091021s77d4f603y50c3fbb20cd4c181@mail.gmail.com%3E
>>
>> Google searches on this are pretty strongly pointing to  
>> 'initgroups', which I know nothing about.
>
> I see in that thread someone else reports this same problem a years  
> ago, but I don't see a solution mentioned. If you are not able to  
> resolve the issue, I recommend writing to that list again,  
> referencing that old thread, and asking for more information.

I nuked my error_log earlier, so only have today forward.  Looking  
much closer at time stamps, I see it went something like this:

edit foo.conf
add line for error document with a | to rotatelogs and set to use 300  
seconds
apachectl graceful
http request a few pages in foo domain to generate some errors
Note that they are showing up in the newly pointed error log file
wait 300 seconds, notice the log was rotated
strike the line from foo.conf
apachectl graceful
Get an email from client saying site was down...

I can look in the logs and see more, since my OP just was grep'd for  
'alert' lines, there seems to be a correlation with the time I was  
messing with rotatelogs.  If I am brave, over the weekend I will see  
if I can not make it repeatable.

I posted a outline of the issue to apache-users, and asked for advice  
on how to figure out the best next steps.  I will update this thread  
if it is relevant to MacPorts maintaining a stable Apache on Mac OS X.

Thanks.
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