[Vserver] apache dies

[Matthew Nuzum]

I have two physical servers, each has at least one vserver running a RedHat 7.3 distribution that acts as a webserver running the standard RedHat apache RPMs.   About every other Sunday morning at 4:00 am apache dies with something like this in the error log: [Sun Oct 19 04:02:02 2003] [warn] child process 20010 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Sun Oct 19 04:02:02 2003] [warn] child process 20011 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Sun Oct 19 04:02:02 2003] [warn] child process 20012 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Sun Oct 19 04:02:02 2003] [warn] child process 20013 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Sun Oct 19 04:02:02 2003] [warn] child process 20014 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Sun Oct 19 04:02:02 2003] [warn] child process 20015 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Sun Oct 19 04:02:02 2003] [warn] child process 20016 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Sun Oct 19 04:02:02 2003] [warn] child process 20017 did not exit, sending another SIGHUP [Sun Oct 19 04:02:03 2003] [notice] SIGHUP received.  Attempting to restart   The only thing I can think of is that the default log rotation is weekly.  Typically, the server load is very low on at 4:00 am, so I don’t know why apache would die at this time.   For some time I’ve been running one vserver *not as a vserver*, meaning that instead of using a vserver kernel, I just created an alias on a network card and then did “chroot /vserver/testserver” and started apache manually.  It ran fine for months that way.  Now, I’ve installed a vserver kernel and run this as a true vserver.  All of a sudden, with absolutely NO configuration changes to the vserver what-so-ever it starts exhibiting this problem.   Here is the configuration for the vserver: # Description: Test Server   if [ "" = "" ]; then         PROFILE=""> fi case $PROFILE in prod)         IPROOT="eth1:192.168.0.10/255.255.255.0"         IPROOTDEV="eth1"         S_HOSTNAME=www.obfuscated         ;; backup)         IPROOT=""         #IPROOTMASK=         #IPROOTBCAST=         IPROOTDEV=eth0         S_HOSTNAME=         ;; esac > S_DOMAINNAME= S_NICE= S_FLAGS="lock nproc" ULIMIT="-H -u 1000" S_CAPS=""       #!/bin/sh case $1 in pre-start)         ;; post-start)           ;; pre-stop)         ;; post-stop)         ;; *)         echo $0 pre-start         echo $0 pre-stop         echo $0 post-start         echo $0 post-stop         ;; esac   Any suggestions?  I do have to say, I can re-start some of the vservers, but there are a few that cannot be restarted unless it’s absolutely last-resort.   Host OS is RedHat 8 and Kernel is: Linux version 2.4.20ctx-17 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (version gcc 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)) #1 dim mar 30 12:32:24 EST 2003     Matthew Nuzum           | ISPs: Make $200 - $5,000 per referral by www.followers.net       | recomending Elite CMS to your customers! [EMAIL PROTECTED]      | http://www.followers.net/isp