[TriLUG] Log question?

[Noah Fontes]

WA Brown wrote:
> That was an old message board that I tried. Some of the "bots" found it 
> and took it over with the spam advertising. The part that distresses me 
> is when it says "Apache configured--resuming normal operations". What 
> was configured and why? I have disabled that board completely.

When Apache finishes its initial configuration (for example, after a 
SIGHUP signal or after it has been called from `httpd` (or `apachectl`)) 
it always says that. It's nothing to worry about, typically. Here's an 
excerpt from my logs:

[Sun May 21 11:18:11 2006] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest 
authentication ...
[Sun May 21 11:18:11 2006] [notice] Digest: done
[Sun May 21 11:18:12 2006] [notice] Apache/2.2.2 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.2 
OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1 DAV/2 PHP/5.1.4 configured -- resuming normal operations

However, it does worry me a bit that your Apache instance is issuing 
that notice so often. I don't know why that would happen, especially if 
you're not getting notices that Apache received a SIGTERM or SIGHUP 
signal prior to that. (Segfaults?)

-- 
Noah Fontes
Cynigram Network Administrator
impl at cynigram.com