Submitted by s3cur3f0undati0ns on Thu, 09/23/2010 - 10:32
Apache crashes every Sunday between 10:15 and 12:15. It then will not enable me to use the action button to restart the service. I have to ssh in and reboot the whole thing.
I check the apache error logs the errors don't match the previous week nor do they display anything near the crash or anything that seems related.
I have also checked the scheduled cron jobs and although there are some that run exclusively on Sundays, all of them run at 3:30 or 4:00 in the morning.
There is a backup that runs on Sunday nights at 4 am that I am wondering has something to do with it.
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Submitted by andreychek on Thu, 09/23/2010 - 12:11 Comment #1
Howdy -- well, it's difficult to say at what might cause Apache to crash. I suspect there's some sort of trigger, the trick would just be determining what that is.
There's a forum post here about a few folks who have experienced problems with log rotation:
http://www.virtualmin.com/node/13303
Now, that should happen later in the day though. Can you verify that your system time is correct? If the clock wandered a bit, it's possible cron jobs are firing early.
Also, you may want to look in /var/log/messages to see if anything in there coincides with when Apache breaks.