Apache failing each morning

[glennj]

My server has started to stop responding to web requests (ie. apache not working) each morning... the time isn't always the same... but I do always have this in the log file each time...

[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 3723 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 3724 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 3725 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 3726 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 3727 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 3728 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 3729 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 2963 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 8102 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 8103 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 8104 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 8105 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 8106 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 8107 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 8108 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 8169 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 8170 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 13302 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 13327 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM
[Thu Aug 03 04:14:17 2006] [warn] child process 13334 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM

Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? A simple restart on Apache via SSH and all is well again, although the Plesk watchdog doesn't seem to be able to restart it for some reason...

Please help me... I want a good nights sleep!

 

[Dangerous]

glennj,

Let me ask you this, do you have SIM installed on your server? Prior to the SIGTERM entries, did you have a message:

[error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /var/www/html/index.html ?

I had a similiar problem. I created the file /var/www/html/index.html. No more problem.

Not sure if this is what is causing your problem or not, but it solved mine.