Re: Apache2 Dying

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Raquel wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:38:55 -0600
> "Sergio Cuéllar Valdés" <herrsergio@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2007/11/6, Raquel <raquel@thericehouse.net>:
> > > I give up.  I've spent all day, and part of yesterday, googling
> > > and haven't been able to fix a thing.
> >
> > > Apache stops serving pages and has to be reloaded.  I've looked
> > > at all the logs and can find no rhyme nor reason to its
> > > stopping. Everything else keeps working, meaning, that I can
> > > still access the file system and run programs using a terminal
> > > and ssh.
> > >
> > > For the life of me I cannot figure this out.  Anyone run across
> > > this before or know how to fix it?  Thanks.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > maybe you can use strace to try to debug what is happening.
> >
> > YOu can try something like: # strace /usr/sbin/apache2
> >
> > and search for some kind of error there.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Sergio Cuellar
>
> A good deal of the strace scrolls off the screen (strace
> /usr/sbin/apache2 > strace.txt gives me a 0 length file), but, I

You can use "strace -o apache.trace /path/to/apache2" to save output to 
apache.trace. You might also want to look at the timing options of 
strace (-t -T and -r)

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Raj Kiran Grandhi