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From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
Subject: Re: Apache + FreeBSD 2.1.0-R = SIGSEGV
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 00:52:46 -0700
Organization: Lightside, Inc. - Internet Access
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In article <52roov$e1@zip0.zipnet.net>, kot@zipnet.net (Mikhail Teterin) wrote:

>On Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:27:04 -0700 honorable Fred Condo
>        wrote (in article <fred-2009961527040001@titanium.shocking.com>):
>
>=A client has been running Apache under FreeBSD for a while, and now
>=suddenly the following problems happen:
>
>=1. httpd takes a LONG time (in excess of 10 minutes) to configure itself.
>=2. every hit yields an error of this type in error_log:
>=   [Fri Sep 20 15:03:08 1996] httpd: caught SIGSEGV, dumping core
>=   and of this type in /var/log/messages:
>=   Sep 20 15:08:46 otny /kernel: pid 299: httpd: uid 65534: exited on signal 6
>
>May be, the server tries to resolve all the hostnames, and you client's
>DNS changed recently? The files on the server itself may be correct, but
>something might have changed on the DNS...

The problem is not DNS-related; it happens even when accessing via a
numeric IP address.

>
>Also, make sure server's log-files did not grow too long... Apache
>does not rotate it's log files by itself (does anybody?)

Plenty of disk space.

>
>=Despite the 'dumping core,' no core files can be found on the system.
>
>Are you looking for `core' or `httpd.core' files? On FreeBSD you need
>the later.
>
>        -mi

find / -name "*.core" -print

yield nothing.
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