RE: [nlug] Apache crashes every Sunday like a clockwork

2013-03-31 Thread Toth, Csaba
crashes every Sunday like a clockwork Here's a weird data point for you. I have an ubuntu server, probably version 8 or 10, that has a few rails sites running under lighttpd. It used to crash every two or three weeks at the same time. Guess what time it crashed. I never did track it down, I'd just

Re: [nlug] Apache crashes every Sunday like a clockwork

2013-03-12 Thread Michael Chaney
Here's a weird data point for you. I have an ubuntu server, probably version 8 or 10, that has a few rails sites running under lighttpd. It used to crash every two or three weeks at the same time. Guess what time it crashed. I never did track it down, I'd just restart it and go to church.

Re: [nlug] Apache crashes every Sunday like a clockwork

2013-03-11 Thread Perkins, Jerry
On 03/10/2013 08:18 PM, Toth, Csaba wrote: Our lab's web server at Vandy crashes every Sunday at 7:41am exactly. Interesting, my Debian did the same thing about 5 years ago for a few weeks. Update took care of it. -- Jerry Perkins Home page http://jperkins.us html://jperkins/us

Re: [nlug] Apache crashes every Sunday like a clockwork

2013-03-11 Thread Drew from Zhrodague
On 3/10/13 9:18 PM, Toth, Csaba wrote: Hey Linux Gurus, I wonder about your advices how I can solve this. Our lab's web server at Vandy crashes every Sunday at 7:41am exactly. I cannot track down the culprit. It's an Ubuntu Server Edition 12.04.1 LTS Precise. Apache has php5 and even Drupal. We

[nlug] Apache crashes every Sunday like a clockwork

2013-03-10 Thread Toth, Csaba
Hey Linux Gurus, I wonder about your advices how I can solve this. Our lab's web server at Vandy crashes every Sunday at 7:41am exactly. I cannot track down the culprit. It's an Ubuntu Server Edition 12.04.1 LTS Precise. Apache has php5 and even Drupal. We don't use Drupal and very little php.

Re: [nlug] Apache crashes every Sunday like a clockwork

2013-03-10 Thread andrew mcelroy
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 8:26 PM, andrew mcelroy sophri...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Toth, Csaba csaba.t...@vanderbilt.edu wrote: Hey Linux Gurus, I wonder about your advices how I can solve this. Our lab's web server at Vandy crashes every Sunday at 7:41am exactly.

Re: [nlug] Apache crashes every Sunday like a clockwork

2013-03-10 Thread Kent Perrier
First thing I would try is removing PHP. If you are not using it that much why suffer the security issues? Depending on how it is being use can you move that functionality to a standard cgi process? If you can't remove it, implement modsecurity to see if that does anything to help. Are you sure

Re: [nlug] Apache crashes every Sunday like a clockwork

2013-03-10 Thread Andrew Farnsworth
Try restarting apache yourself and check the logs. It is possible something is cycling apache (maybe for log rotation) and that FastCGI is preventing it from closing down cleanly. If you restart apache yourself and get the same error, it should lead you down the right path. I will second

Re: [nlug] Apache crashes every Sunday like a clockwork

2013-03-10 Thread David R. Wilson
What about trying to renice the task before the other routines get the chance to get a lot of CPU time? It does sound strange that it would crash on a predictable basis. If Drupal is not being used, I would consider trying to remove it and see what happens. Dave On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 01:18