[ale] Re: httpd error_log entry

[Greg Sabino Mullane]

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>Every day at 4:02 a.m. I get the following entry in my httpd/error_log file:

>[notice] SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart
[snippety-do-dah]

> What is going on here? What does this log entry mean? It seems that the
> server is getting rebooted because I have SSL enabled. What is the logic
> behind doing this?

This is most likely the logrotate program periodically rotating your 
logs every morning at 4am. Check your system cron entries for logrotate 
lines. Apache is restarted so that new log files are opened,; otherwise 
the apache executable would continue to use the old, stale filehandles. 
It has nothing to do with SSL: these are the normal messages when Apache 
receives a request to restart. You can try it yourself by issuing a 
'apachectl graceful' command and looking at your logs. It's when the error_log 
lines start with something other than [notice] that you want to sit up and 
really take notice. :)

Greg Sabino Mullane  <greg at turnstep.com>
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