Bug#398223: Acknowledgement (apache2: "[notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down")

[Clayton <ckoeni@gmail.com>]

After enduring seven consecutive Sunday morning Apache2 shutdowns (ie. this is REALLY reproducible on my end) I commented out the following in my one SSL-enabled virtual host:

NameVirtualHost *:443
<VirtualHost *:443>
        DocumentRoot /var/www/langex
        ServerName www.langex.net
        ServerAlias server langex.net *.langex.net
        CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
        # SSLEngine on
        # SSLCertificateFile /etc/apache2/ssl/langex.self.crt
        # SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/apache2/ssl/langex.net.key
</VirtualHost>

No more spontaneous shutdowns. In other words, with the SSL stuff above turned on, Apache2 shuts down every Sunday morning. With it commented out as above, I have now gotten through two Sundays without a shutdown.

Sure looks like SSL has something to do with this, at least tangentially.