[LUAU] Re: [Apache configured notices in error_log]

[Ronald L Fox]

I see the same kind of messages on a RedHat5.0 system in
/var/log/httpd/error_log and error_log.1 ... error_log.4

The notices are caused by logrotate running out of cron.daily using
the /etc/logrotate.conf configuration which 'includes' the files in
/etc/logrotate.d, one of which is apache which has instructions for
rotating (renameing error_log to error_log.1, etc) the 4 possible
apache logs in /var/log/httpd/ followed by a postrotate command of
/usr/bin/killall -HUP httpd.  This will cause all the processes
running httpd to receive the "HangUp" signal which they react to by
re-reading the Apache configuration file(s) and creating the new
error_log file.

On my system, in each of the error_log.n files, the first entry
looks like: 
[Sun Jan 31 01:02:50 1999] Server configured -- resuming normal operations

and the last entry looks like:
[Sun Feb  7 01:02:36 1999] SIGHUP received.  Attempting to restart

There may be other such entries if you change your Apache configuration
files or explicitly send the httpd processes a "SIGHUP".

All part of the normal housekeeping that Linux performs so well.

Hope this helps,
Ron

At 04:15 PM 2/9/99 -1000, David C. Eason wrote:
>Could anyone tell me what this means:
>
>[Fri Jan  8 06:44:32 1999] [notice] Apache/1.3.3 (Unix) configured --
>resuming normal operations
>
>
>I get this in my error_log every now and then, is it a "normal" thing or
>is Apache configured improperly?
>
>David C. Eason, Jr.

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