apache is seg faulting. why ?

Jon-Eirik Pettersen lists at jonepet.net
Fri Jan 30 06:21:23 PST 2004


julien Beauviala wrote:

>Hello, 
>
>since about four days, the daily security logs are reporting 
>the following :
>
>  
>
>>pid 72041 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>>pid 72040 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>>pid 72099 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>>pid 72039 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>>pid 74202 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>>    
>>
>[etc... lots of lines]
>
>When I look at /var/log/messages I find :
>
>Jan 30 10:53:49 webserver /kernel: pid 20682 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>Jan 30 11:43:29 webserver /kernel: pid 24874 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>Jan 30 13:12:37 webserver /kernel: pid 32084 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>Jan 30 13:20:49 webserver /kernel: pid 32628 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>Jan 30 13:20:54 webserver /kernel: pid 32605 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>Jan 30 13:21:01 webserver /kernel: pid 32629 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11
>
>No idea what is going on, it started four days ago for no reason
>I can guess. In the apache logs I find no actions that would be in sync with
>those timestamps. Google was not much help either. 
>
>How should I go about investigating this ? How can I find out more infos about 
>what is causing this ?
>
>I'm puzzled and a bit worried. Many thanks for any hints.
>
>  
>
Have you loaded any extra modules?
(the PHP3-module for example can make Apache to SEGFAULT)
If so, check that they are the latest version.
Do you run the latest version of Apache?
If you're running Apache2, maybe you should try 1.3.


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