system/3049: Apache web server (httpd) dies after random period

>Number: 3049
>Category: system
>Synopsis: web server dies after random period
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
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>Environment:

	System      : OpenBSD 3.2
	Architecture: OpenBSD.i386
	Machine     : i386

>Description:

	If /etc/newsyslog.conf is set to rotate apache logs, httpd will die
	when cron tries to restart it. New to OpenBSD 3.2, the "unused" files
	conf/srm.conf and conf/access.conf were removed.
	httpd will not restart via a signal if these are not present.

>How-To-Repeat:

	1. Enable httpd in rc.conf
	2. Uncomment apache log rotation lines in /etc/newsyslog.conf
	3. Reboot, use web until it dies... :)
	Or: Run httpd, then kill -s USR1 , note no longer running.
	View error message in /var/www/logs/error_log.

>Fix:

	touch /var/www/conf/srm.conf /var/www/conf/access.conf

	Note that the expected fix would be to uncomment ResourceConfig and
	AccessConfig in httpd.conf and send these to /dev/null
	(see httpd.conf-dist), however in a chroot environment this
	cannot be done. The real fix is to patch the C source...

	ResourceConfig /dev/null #conf/srm.conf
	AccessConfig /dev/null #conf/access.conf

>Release-Note:
Received on Mon Dec 30 08:41:21 2002