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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] apache: what could cause "graceful restart requested"?
From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I just noticed my apache-uptime is just a few hours.
> Actually, I have found my web-server has been restarted
> today at ~03:10 UTC. I have found this message in
> /var/log/apache2/error-log
> ---
> [Wed Aug 03 03:10:01 2011] [notice] Graceful restart requested,
> =C2=A0doing restart
> ---
>
> What could have caused this? BTW I noticed all apache logs
> have been rotated exactly at this time. Is that a reason
> why apache was restarted? I never noticed it...

Very likely. logrotate would ask apache to restart so that it can move
the old log file out of the way.

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