httpd is stopping automaticly

[Claus Lundholm]

Hi

I've got a problem that my httpd is stopping automaticly sometimes -making all sites unreachable. Something is stopping my httpd -but what. I can start the httpd manualy again, and then it can run for weeks before it's stops again.

What can be the problem here?

 

[EvolutionCrazy]

do you get any error in your

/var/log/httpd/error_log

after it stops?

 

[Claus Lundholm]

Originally posted by EvolutionCrazy
do you get any error in your

/var/log/httpd/error_log

after it stops?

The only thing i can see is this:

[Fri Jun 17 11:44:40 2005] [error] OpenSSL: error:140760FC:lib(20):func(118):reason(252)
[Fri Jun 17 12:17:12 2005] [notice] SIGUSR1 received. Doing graceful restart
[Fri Jun 17 12:17:13 2005] [warn] module mod_frontpage.c is already added, skipping
[Fri Jun 17 12:17:13 2005] [notice] Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) FrontPage/5.0.2.2623 mod_python/2.7.8 Python/1.5.2 mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b PHP/4.3.8 mod_perl/1.26 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Fri Jun 17 12:17:13 2005] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Fri Jun 17 12:17:13 2005] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default: sysvsem)

But's it's before i restarted the https myself.

 

[lnxmtl]

I had a similar problem and made the following script that checks the number of httpd related processes and restarts it if it goes out of bounds :

Save it as /etc/httpd/httpdwatch
--------------------------------------------------

#!/bin/sh

#
# Restart HTTPD if fewer than 6 httpd related processes or more than 99 httpd related processes
#
# Use in a cron job run every minute
#
# /etc/httpd/httpdwatch>>/var/log/httpd/watch_log
#
# V 1.01 - May 15, 2005 - E. Vinter / Pages-Web.com
#
#

mn=`date +%M`
if [ $mn -eq 0 ]
then
mn=`date`
echo $mn
fi
CNT=`ps ax | grep -v grep | grep -c httpd`
echo $CNT
if [ $CNT -gt 99 ]
then
CNT=0
fi
if [ $CNT -le 5 ]
then
mn=`date`
echo $mn '- Restarting HTTPD...'
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
fi

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A root cron job launch it every minute.
the log is put in /var/log/httpd/ (automatic log rotation)

/etc/httpd/httpdwatch>>/var/log/httpd/watch_log

To test it, just stop the httpd server either through SSH ( /etc/init.d/httpd stop ) or through the control panel.

The next minute, it should be back, and the event should be properly recorded in the log.

Hope this helps ...