I have apache-2.2.9_5 under openvds (jail) in the FreeBSD system (6.3-STABLE). I configured Apache HTTP Server to create few virtual hosts. Starting Apache server is successful and it works ok. I have FreeBSD's watchdog script which performs some actions every 10 minutes and this watchdog just kills Apache processes. I starter Apache at 16:21:30 and at 16:30:02 it was killed by a watchdog. Here are the log messages: /var/log/debug.log: Sep 29 16:30:00 heaven watchdog[23377]: Watchdog started Sep 29 16:30:00 heaven watchdog[23377]: Watchdog create pid file Sep 29 16:30:00 heaven watchdog[23377]: Before init Sep 29 16:30:00 heaven watchdog[23377]: After init Sep 29 16:30:00 heaven watchdog[23377]: Load WatchDog config Sep 29 16:30:00 heaven watchdog[23377]: Config loaded Sep 29 16:30:00 heaven watchdog[23377]: Begin check Sep 29 16:30:00 heaven watchdog[23377]: Wait for finish Sep 29 16:30:00 heaven watchdog[23377]: Check WWW Sep 29 16:30:01 heaven watchdog[23377]: thread MySQL finished with status OK Sep 29 16:30:01 heaven watchdog[23377]: thread HTTP finished with status ERR Sep 29 16:30:01 heaven watchdog[23377]: Begin restart Sep 29 16:30:01 heaven watchdog[23377]: stop command '/usr/local/sbin/apachectl stop' Sep 29 16:30:12 heaven watchdog[23377]: process name 'httpd' Sep 29 16:30:12 heaven watchdog[23377]: start command '/usr/local/sbin/apachectl startssl' Sep 29 16:30:22 heaven watchdog[23377]: Wait for finish Sep 29 16:30:22 heaven watchdog[23377]: Check WWW Sep 29 16:30:22 heaven watchdog[23377]: thread HTTP finished with status ERR Sep 29 16:30:22 heaven watchdog[23377]: Done /var/log/httpd-error.log: [Mon Sep 29 16:21:30 2008] [warn] Init: Session Cache is not configured [hint: SSLSessionCache] [Mon Sep 29 16:21:32 2008] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ... [Mon Sep 29 16:21:32 2008] [notice] Digest: done [Mon Sep 29 16:21:33 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.9 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1 DAV/2 PHP/5.2.6 configured -- resuming normal operations [Mon Sep 29 16:30:02 2008] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down As far as I understand, the watchdog sends SIGTERM signal to a httpd daemon. Why it could happen? Please, advise Thanks -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Apache-processes-are-killed-by-a-watchdog-tp19724427p19724427.html Sent from the Apache HTTP Server - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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