apachectl graceful fails

[DA Forsyth]

Hiya

Seems some or other code change in apache has caused it to fail to 
restart gracefully when log rotating...  (it used to work fine but 
for the past 2 or 3 months has failed during the logrotate)

error.log shows
[Mon Sep 01 08:00:03 2008] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing 
restart
[Mon Sep 01 08:00:04 2008] [notice] seg fault or similar nasty error 
detected in the parent process

and it never restarts.   A manual 'apachectl start' gets it going 
just fine, and a manual 'stop ... start' also is just fine, so it 
seems to be an issue in the 'graceful' code.

ideas?


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       DA Fo rsyth            Network Supervisor
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