Graceful restart requested, doing restart

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Hello, every sunday morning my Ubuntu server does a restart and I dont know why. These are the messages from the log files:

[Sun Nov 03 07:35:03 2013] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing restart

[Sun Nov 03 07:35:04 2013] [notice] Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.4.17-5+debphp.org~precise+1 configured – resuming normal operations

(If it has to do anything with PHP I used these lines when I updated PHP to version 5.4) :

sudo apt-get install python-software-properties apt-get dist-upgrade sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5-oldstable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade

Thanks in advance!

paraogabriel · Answer

logrotate content:

# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly

# use the syslog group by default, since this is the owning group
# of /var/log/syslog.
su root syslog

# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4

# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create

# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress

# packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d

# no packages own wtmp, or btmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
    missingok
    monthly
    create 0664 root utmp
    rotate 1
}

/var/log/btmp {
    missingok
    monthly
    create 0660 root utmp
    rotate 1
}

# system-specific logs may be configured here

Could the cause of this problem be the fact that I am calling date_default_timezone_set() at times?

Thanks!

paraogabriel · Answer

Hi. Im having the same problem, but in my case, the apache restart is restarting frequently, see my error log:

[Sun Nov 15 00:11:36.895033 2020] [core:notice] [pid 13438] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Sun Nov 15 00:12:47.058426 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 13438] AH00171: Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Sun Nov 15 00:12:47.598797 2020] [ssl:warn] [pid 13438] AH01909: www.universonoobz.com.br:443:0 server certificate does NOT include an ID which matches the server name
[Sun Nov 15 00:12:48.003024 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 13438] AH00163: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.1.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Nov 15 00:12:48.003055 2020] [core:notice] [pid 13438] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Sun Nov 15 00:12:54.820531 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 13438] AH00171: Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Sun Nov 15 00:12:55.221861 2020] [ssl:warn] [pid 13438] AH01909: www.universonoobz.com.br:443:0 server certificate does NOT include an ID which matches the server name
[Sun Nov 15 00:12:55.455911 2020] [ssl:warn] [pid 13438] AH01909: www.familiafooddelivery.com:443:0 server certificate does NOT include an ID which matches the server name
[Sun Nov 15 00:12:55.571234 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 13438] AH00163: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.1.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Nov 15 00:12:55.571263 2020] [core:notice] [pid 13438] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Sun Nov 15 00:13:17.307437 2020] [core:error] [pid 13438] AH00546: no record of generation 24 of exiting child 30316
[Sun Nov 15 00:13:43.954317 2020] [core:error] [pid 13438] AH00546: no record of generation 6 of exiting child 24369
[Sun Nov 15 00:13:57.977622 2020] [core:error] [pid 13438] AH00546: no record of generation 8 of exiting child 25018
[Sun Nov 15 00:14:02.987831 2020] [core:error] [pid 13438] AH00546: no record of generation 20 of exiting child 28441
[Sun Nov 15 00:14:05.495595 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 13438] AH00171: Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Sun Nov 15 00:14:06.213564 2020] [ssl:warn] [pid 13438] AH01909: www.universonoobz.com.br:443:0 server certificate does NOT include an ID which matches the server name
[Sun Nov 15 00:14:06.455696 2020] [ssl:warn] [pid 13438] AH01909: www.familiafooddelivery.com:443:0 server certificate does NOT include an ID which matches the server name
[Sun Nov 15 00:14:06.637107 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 13438] AH00163: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.1.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Nov 15 00:14:06.637159 2020] [core:notice] [pid 13438] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Sun Nov 15 00:14:13.450406 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 13438] AH00171: Graceful restart requested, doing restart
[Sun Nov 15 00:14:14.097504 2020] [ssl:warn] [pid 13438] AH01909: www.familiafooddelivery.com:443:0 server certificate does NOT include an ID which matches the server name
[Sun Nov 15 00:14:14.211056 2020] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 13438] AH00163: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu) OpenSSL/1.1.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
[Sun Nov 15 00:14:14.211132 2020] [core:notice] [pid 13438] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Sun Nov 15 00:14:36.925862 2020] [core:error] [pid 13438] AH00546: no record of generation 26 of exiting child 30450

Please, help me. Thanks.

mihai.zavod · Answer

If you run cPanel on your server you can fix this by going to WHM panel at:
Service Configuration » Apache Configuration » Piped Log Configuration, checkbox “Enable Piped Apache Logs” then “Save”.

That worked for me on CentOS 6.5.

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