server log oddness

[brian moseley]

when exactly is the server log (Apache->server->log) shut
down?

i've registered a server cleanup handler that, among other
things, tries to write some debugging messages to the server
log. however, it seems that calling $slog->debug somehow
silently dies; my code stops executing at the point i call
that method, as if the method died, but i don't catch an
exception when i wrap my code in eval.

anybody seen anything like this before?

bcm@hojmo:~ > perl -v

This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i586-linux