apache halting during log rotation

[Robin Becker]

I have the following in my newsyslog.conf


> /var/log/httpd-*.log        644  9     8    @T01    BG /var/run/httpd.pid 30

and am seeing crashes with apache-2.0.63_2 which I think are associated.

The relevant error log entries appear to be these lines

> [Thu Apr 02 01:00:00 2009] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart
> [Thu Apr 02 01:00:00 2009] [emerg] (2)No such file or directory: Couldn't initialize cross-process lock in child
> [Thu Apr 02 01:00:00 2009] [emerg] (2)No such file or directory: Couldn't initialize cross-process lock in child
> [Thu Apr 02 01:00:00 2009] [notice] FastCGI: process manager initialized (pid 93707)
> [Thu Apr 02 01:00:01 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `*.xxx.org' does NOT match server name!?
> [Thu Apr 02 01:00:01 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) `*.xxx.org' does NOT match server name!?
.......
> [Thu Apr 02 01:00:01 2009] [warn] RSA server certificate wildcard CommonName (CN) `*.xxx.org' does NOT match server name!?
> [Thu Apr 02 01:00:01 2009] [notice] Apache/2.0.63 (FreeBSD) mod_fastcgi/2.4.6 mod_ssl/2.0.63 OpenSSL/0.9.8e configured -- resuming normal operations
> [Thu Apr 02 01:00:01 2009] [alert] Child 93701 returned a Fatal error... Apache is exiting!
> [Thu Apr 02 01:00:01 2009] [alert] FastCGI: read() from pipe failed (0)
> [Thu Apr 02 01:00:01 2009] [alert] FastCGI: the PM is shutting down, Apache seems to have disappeared - bye

I have used this rotation scheme with 6.0/6.1/6.2 for some years and it has 
never failed till the last few days when I'm now running 7.0-RELEASE. Can anyone 
adivise what could be done to ameliorate this.

I see mention of rotatelogs, is that a better solution to this problem?
-- 
Robin Becker