Apache Randomly Stopping Every Day
New Fix Here
Recently I have been experiencing apache server stopping randomly from time to time. Myabe due to DDos Atack or some weird event that I can't find in the logs. Maybe some cron job but I have been checking and stopping cron jobs but it has no effect. Also aI have DDos Blocker that blocks Ip Addresses whne they reach a maximum connection so I can't say he problem where IT was originating . Not Band Width Problem Since I have sonic.net at my back.
No Clue At All.
My Setup is Centos 5 with Virtualmin all packages are up to date.
My Fix Was the following:
I have searched for a script / command that will check apache if it is down, I found it somewhere in the web tyou can google it since it's one on the top of the list.
Then I cron job It Every 5 minutes interval so if it fails on the 2nd minute I'm only down on 3 minutes and it will go up again.
The funny thing is it is random so that's why i chose every 5 minutes. I rather choose every hour but it will penalize the server if it gets down 15 minutes on the hour and I will be down for about 45 minutes.
I'm still checking and monitoring the problem hope it goes away.. There is no problem on my configuration since i use default setups and don't compile them sothe system is bare from t he rpm packages.
Maybe this will go away after a http package update I'm waiting for it.
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Jmaz
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Systems Administrator
Recently I have been experiencing apache server stopping randomly from time to time. Myabe due to DDos Atack or some weird event that I can't find in the logs. Maybe some cron job but I have been checking and stopping cron jobs but it has no effect. Also aI have DDos Blocker that blocks Ip Addresses whne they reach a maximum connection so I can't say he problem where IT was originating . Not Band Width Problem Since I have sonic.net at my back.
No Clue At All.
My Setup is Centos 5 with Virtualmin all packages are up to date.
My Fix Was the following:
I have searched for a script / command that will check apache if it is down, I found it somewhere in the web tyou can google it since it's one on the top of the list.
Then I cron job It Every 5 minutes interval so if it fails on the 2nd minute I'm only down on 3 minutes and it will go up again.
The funny thing is it is random so that's why i chose every 5 minutes. I rather choose every hour but it will penalize the server if it gets down 15 minutes on the hour and I will be down for about 45 minutes.
I'm still checking and monitoring the problem hope it goes away.. There is no problem on my configuration since i use default setups and don't compile them sothe system is bare from t he rpm packages.
Maybe this will go away after a http package update I'm waiting for it.
-
Jmaz
- Your Friendly Neighborhood Systems Administrator
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