Question
AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
- Posted September 18, 2019
- LAMP StackWordPressLinux BasicsApache
Anyone encountered the same issue like this?
Apache will just restart after several minute or idle time.
Here’s the logs.
[Wed Sep 18 08:40:31.204318 2019] [core:notice] [pid 3704] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Wed Sep 18 08:43:12.823934 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 3704] AH00171: Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Wed Sep 18 08:43:12.940468 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 3704] AH00163: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.1.1c configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Sep 18 08:43:12.940499 2019] [core:notice] [pid 3704] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Wed Sep 18 08:43:22.975687 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 3704] AH00171: Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Wed Sep 18 08:43:23.094698 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 3704] AH00163: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.1.1c configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Sep 18 08:43:23.094739 2019] [core:notice] [pid 3704] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Wed Sep 18 08:43:43.479448 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 3704] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Wed Sep 18 08:43:43.677845 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 5070] AH00163: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.1.1c configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Sep 18 08:43:43.677948 2019] [core:notice] [pid 5070] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Wed Sep 18 08:46:55.304779 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 5070] AH00173: SIGHUP received. Attempting to restart
[Wed Sep 18 08:46:55.358171 2019] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 5070] AH00163: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.1.1c configured -- resuming normal operations
[Wed Sep 18 08:46:55.358218 2019] [core:notice] [pid 5070] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
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Hello, @akhileswar @Menj
Ubuntu no longer uses the
/var/log/messagesfile by default. The same information is available in the file/var/log/syslog. You can re-enable logging to /var/log/messages if you would like.You can use the following command:
Let me know how it goes.
Regards, Alex
Hi @alexdo
I am getting like this after running your commands
grep: /var/log/messages: No such file or directory
Please let me know how to solve this problem.
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Hello, @Menj
Can you please check the /var/log/messages for any killed processes? The apache process may be killed if it’s using a lot of resources. You can check this using the following command:
You can then check if there are any references for apache as well or you can modify the command to show those related with apache:
Let me know how it goes. Alex