Apache: Graceful restart requested, doing restart

[guarriman]

Hi.

Using Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora), it often crashes suddenly and I must restart
it.

I've found this error message on a previous '/var/log/httpd/error_log.2':
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[Sat Oct 08 02:01:57 2005] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing
restart
[Sat Oct 08 02:02:00 2005] [notice] Digest: generating secret for
digest authentication ...
[Sat Oct 08 02:02:00 2005] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Oct 08 02:02:00 2005] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK
[Sat Oct 08 02:02:00 2005] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable
[Sat Oct 08 02:02:01 2005] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session
mutexes based on 180 max processes and 0 max threads.
[Sat Oct 08 02:02:01 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora) configured
-- resuming normal operations
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What's the meaning of this messages? I DID NOT restart my Apache server
at 02:00h in the night. :?

In addition, on my '/var/log/boot.log' I don't find any 'httpd shutdown succeeded' or 'httpd startup succeeded' message at that moment in the night.

The only clue I've found is that everyday, at 02:00h, a shell-script is run in order to backup DBs and
some files of the server. On Saturday, it ended at 02:01:47, 10 seconds before the incident.

Any suggestion? Thank you very much.

[guarriman]

I've noticed that
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[Sat Oct 08 02:01:57 2005] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing
restart
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was the last line of '/var/log/httpd/error_log.2'

So this issue may be due to 'logrotate'. But why was my server stopped for 6 hours til I started it
manually at 08:30h?