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AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down

Posted on September 18, 2019
Menj

By Menj

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, @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:

grep -i kill /var/log/messages

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:

grep -i kill /var/log/messages | grep apache

Let me know how it goes. Alex

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