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From: Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug with graceful restarts?
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1.3.5-dev survives 30 or 40 seconds of continuous kill -USR1 on a redhat
5.2 box... it could be something in your code.

These things are, uh, "fun" to debug.  It's probably a race condition.

Does the configuration used piped logs?

Dean

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Wilfredo Sanchez wrote:

>   I just got a bug report that after doing several "apachectl  
> graceful" restarts (while fiddling with and testing the config), the  
> server eventually dies. In at least one case this is accompanied by  
> one "apache: [<datestamp>] [warn] long lost child came home! (pid  
> <#>)" error message logged to the apache "error_log" file for each  
> apache daemon.
> 
>   This apparently never happened with 1.3.3; started with 1.3.4.
> 
>   Has anyone else seen anything similar? I'm curious as to whether  
> it might be specific to Mac OS X Server.
> 
> 	-Fred
>