Bug#573996: Lost recent reports in /var/log/apache2/ when restarting with /etc/init.d/apache2 restart.

[Bernhard Schiffner <bschiffner@transinsight.com>]

Package: apache2.2-common
Version: 2.2.9-10+lenny6
Severity: normal


0.) The server did not resposne http://... requests.
1.) ps showed 110 sleeping apache2 instances, no other anormalities (dmesg,
free, du etc.)
2.) I did a normal restart via /etc/init.d/apache2 restart.
3.) Everything is running ok now.
4.) I tryed to find out what happend, but the report files in
/var/log/apache2 were newly created after restart and not appended.
5.) Older files there (created by logrotate) still exists.
6.) I have no info about the state or content of these logfiles before restart.
7.) I didn't try something like sync before restarting apache2.

TIA!

Bernhard


-- Package-specific info:
List of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/*.load:
  actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_default authn_file
  authnz_ldap authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_user
  autoindex cgi dav dav_fs dav_svn dir* env fcgid fwweb ldap mime
  negotiation php5 proxy proxy_http python setenvif ssl status
  userdir wsgi
  (A * means that the .conf file for that module is not enabled in
   /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686-bigmem (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apache2 depends on:
ii  apache2-mpm-prefork      2.2.9-10+lenny6 Apache HTTP Server - traditional n

apache2 recommends no packages.

apache2 suggests no packages.

Versions of packages apache2.2-common depends on:
ii  apache2-utils       2.2.9-10+lenny6      utility programs for webservers
ii  libapr1             1.2.12-5+lenny1      The Apache Portable Runtime Librar
ii  libaprutil1         1.2.12+dfsg-8+lenny4 The Apache Portable Runtime Utilit
ii  libc6               2.7-18lenny2         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libmagic1           4.26-1               File type determination library us
ii  libssl0.9.8         0.9.8g-15+lenny6     SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base            3.2-20               Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mime-support        3.44-1               MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii  net-tools           1.60-22              The NET-3 networking toolkit
ii  perl                5.10.0-19lenny2      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  procps              1:3.2.7-11           /proc file system utilities
ii  zlib1g              1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12    compression library - runtime

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