> -----Original Message----- > From: George Herlin [mailto:g.herlin@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 03:40 > To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [users@httpd] FW: apache for windows child respawn behaviour > > Hello, > > My organisation has just rolled out a new site, built by IBM, > and on the first day of its exposure to the public, it breaks > down terminally. > > Since the whole thing is hosted by IBM, and since I don't > have access to anything much, I ask them for the apache > version, httpd.conf and the log files. Everything is running > in W2K3, apache is 1.3.28. > > The logs suggest that the site has been attacked by various > means, and notably the apache worm (aka slapper), and that > the child process is dying or being killed because of > excessive thread use. And not restarting. See the end of the > log excerpts attached. > > Where can I find detailed information on the behaviour of > these two apache processes in Windows? The Web is singularly > unhelpful, on this matter. > > Does the child process "publish" its pid in a file in its W2K > form? and other questions relating to "how can one know from > outside that it is dead"? > > Do you have any other suggestions? If you know a quick and > dirty, I'm very interested... I'm in any case going to > suggest an upgrade of apache to something more recent. > > Attached, the httpd.conf and a grepped copy of the logs. > > Thanks in advance, > > George Herlin > > PS I apologise in advance for the message formatting, but all > I have is a web-enabled Outlook, and apparently can't force > it to do plain text. Thanks, Microsoft. > You could turn on the server-status in the httpd.conf to see the pid. Windows Apache uses a single pid for all the processes it runs. Turn on lines 264-270 in the httpd.conf. Thanx Aaron N Wagner Monitoring Systems and Network Tools CCO-Command Center Operations --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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