logrotate problem

[Frank Wiles]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 16:30:53 -0600
"Brian Densmore" <DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com> wrote:

> dunsmuir:/etc/logrotate.d# cat apache-ssl
> /var/log/apache-ssl/*.log {
>         weekly
>         missingok
>         rotate 52
>         compress
>         delaycompress
>         notifempty
>         create 640 <uid> <uid2>
>         sharedscripts
>         postrotate
>                 /etc/init.d/apache-ssl reload > /dev/null
>         endscript
> }
> 
> *******************
> Hmmm ... 
> 
> ran "/etc/init.d/apache-ssl reload" manually.
> 
> Which causes this to happen:
> 
> dunsmuir:/etc/logrotate.d# /etc/init.d/apache-ssl reload
> Reloading apache-ssl configurationNo /usr/sbin/apache-ssl found
> running; none killed. failed
> 
> hmm ...
> dunsmuir:/etc/logrotate.d# ps aux
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> root         1  0.0  0.1  1260   72 ?        S     2004   0:33 init
> [2] root         2  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW    2004   0:36
> [keventd] root         3  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SWN   2004  
> 5:06 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] root         4  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW 
>   2004  37:15 [kswapd]
> root         5  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW    2004   0:00
> [bdflush]...
> <uid>    32273  0.0  0.1  3004   72 ?        S    Feb25   0:00
> /usr/lib/apache-ssl/gcache 33 /var/run/gcache<uid>    32274  0.0  2.2
> 110168 844 ?        S    Feb25   2:03 /usr/sbin/apache-ssl<uid>   
> 32275  0.0  5.6 110140 2104 ?       S    Feb25   2:10
> /usr/sbin/apache-ssl<uid>    32276  0.0 19.5 110812 7304 ?       S   
> Feb25   2:55 /usr/sbin/apache-ssl<uid>    32277  0.0 18.3 110564 6860
> ?       S    Feb25   2:09 /usr/sbin/apache-ssl
> 
> 
> This also failed, sort of :
> 
> dunsmuir:/etc/logrotate.d# /etc/init.d/apache-ssl restart
> Reloading apache-ssl modulesstart-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill
> 12457: No such process No process in pidfile `/var/run/apache-ssl.pid'
> found running; none killed. Reading key for server www.amason.net:443
> Launching... /usr/lib/apache-ssl/gcache
> pid=20301
> 
> I killed all processes related to apache-ssl and started it from
> scratch.
> 
> What would cause something like that?

  If Apache exits oddly and doesn't clean up it's .pid file the init 
  scripts get confused.  

  As long as a /etc/init.d/apache-ssl reload works your logrotate
  should continue to work. 

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   Frank Wiles <frank at wiles.org>
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