Hi, may be there is a little hint to the problem:When I read about the unability to successfully send a "reload" command to the apache, I remembered the fact that my Apache 2.0.44 fails that, too.
(I do not use logrotate for apache logs, but I restart the server for other reasons every month.)
I have the Apache compiled and installed from sources myself - not from Debian package! The "/etc/init.d/apachectl graceful" or "/etc/init.d/apachectl reload" do not work - "...apachectl stop; ...apachectl start" does.
Hope that helps a little bit. Have a good day, Andreas
time on one of his servers. The only way that seems to work actualy is to replace "reload" in logrotate.d/apache-ssl with "restart"!!! But can
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