Mailing List Archive: mod_status & server uptime

mod_status & server uptime

Jan 22, 2002, 2:14 PM

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Using mod_status, when I look at my /server-status/, can anybody tell me
why the line that says "Server uptime:" restarts everyday at 4:00 AM?

To the best of my knowledge, I don't have anything Apache related
happening every morning at 4:00 AM.

For instance as I'm writing this, it says:
"Server uptime: 12 hours 11 minutes 12 seconds"
when I know I haven't done a restart for many weeks.

Also, is there any way to _not_ restart this clock during normal
operation? Thanks.

-Kyle

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RE: mod_status & server uptime [ In reply to ]

joshua at slive

Jan 22, 2002, 2:23 PM

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> From: Kyle [mailto:kyle@ccidomain.com]

> Using mod_status, when I look at my /server-status/, can anybody tell me
> why the line that says "Server uptime:" restarts everyday at 4:00 AM?
>
> To the best of my knowledge, I don't have anything Apache related
> happening every morning at 4:00 AM.

I bet you a nickle you have a log-rotation cron job running every morning at
4am.

Joshua.

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Re: mod_status & server uptime [ In reply to ]

kyle at ccidomain

Jan 22, 2002, 2:47 PM

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I had already checked that. But your willingness to bet so much money
on it made me check again. There was a system cron job that *might*
have been causing it. I'll let you know if you've come into any money
tomorrow. ;) Thanks!
-Kyle

Joshua Slive wrote:
> I bet you a nickle you have a log-rotation cron job running every morning at
> 4am.
>
> Joshua.

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Re: mod_status & server uptime [ In reply to ]

cshobe at softhome

Jan 22, 2002, 4:29 PM

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I have a log-rotation cron job running every hour and my uptime is many
days...so I put my money on Kyle.

- Casey

On Tuesday 22 January 2002 04:47 pm, Kyle wrote:
> I had already checked that. But your willingness to bet so much money
> on it made me check again. There was a system cron job that *might*
> have been causing it. I'll let you know if you've come into any money
> tomorrow. ;) Thanks!
> -Kyle
>
> Joshua Slive wrote:
> > I bet you a nickle you have a log-rotation cron job running every morning
> > at 4am.
> >
> > Joshua.
>
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Casey Allen Shobe
cshobe@softhome.net

'Why do people with closed minds always open their mouths?'

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Re: mod_status & server uptime [ In reply to ]

joshua at slive

Jan 22, 2002, 5:08 PM

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On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Casey Allen Shobe wrote:

> I have a log-rotation cron job running every hour and my uptime is many
> days...so I put my money on Kyle.
>
> On Tuesday 22 January 2002 04:47 pm, Kyle wrote:
> > I had already checked that. But your willingness to bet so much money
> > on it made me check again. There was a system cron job that *might*
> > have been causing it. I'll let you know if you've come into any money
> > tomorrow. ;) Thanks!
> > -Kyle
> >
> > Joshua Slive wrote:
> > > I bet you a nickle you have a log-rotation cron job running every morning
> > > at 4am.

It depends how you do it. The naive linux logrotate program (or whatever
its called) sends SIGHUP to all apache processes. This will reset your
uptime. Probably a SIGUSR1 will not.

Joshua.

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