Why apache2.0 does not rotatelogs process when it died

["Takashima, Makoto" <ta...@poem.ocn.ne.jp>]

Hi,

I have question about rotatelogs process handling.

When apache is logging with rotatelogs and rotatelogs
process died (e.g. accidentaly killed by someone),
Apache-1.3 respawns rotatelogs process and keeps logging but
Apache-2.0 does nothing and does not output log anymore.

What I found is this behaviour is implemented with
server/log.c Revision 1.46. (see the following log and diff)

===============================================================================
Revision 1.46 / (view) - annotate - [select for diffs] , Thu
May 4 19:42:54 2000 UTC (2 years, 9 months ago) by rbb 
Branch: MAIN 
Changes since 1.45: +7 -0 lines 
Diff to previous 1.45 (colored) 
Port reliable piped logs to mpmt_pthread and dexter.  Also a couple of small
cleanups for reliable piped logs.

===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvspublic/httpd-2.0/server/log.c,v
retrieving revision 1.45
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -r1.45 -r1.46
--- httpd-2.0/server/log.c	2000/05/04 04:02:16	1.45
+++ httpd-2.0/server/log.c	2000/05/04 19:42:54	1.46
@@ -636,6 +636,13 @@
 
     switch (reason) {
     case APR_OC_REASON_DEATH:
+	pl->pid = NULL;
+	ap_unregister_other_child(pl);
+	if (pl->program == NULL) {
+	    /* during a restart */
+	    break;
+	}
+        break;
     case APR_OC_REASON_LOST:
 	pl->pid = NULL;
 	ap_unregister_other_child(pl);
===============================================================================

Does anybody know what is intension of this change?

Apache-1.3's respawnning of piped_log process is not
intentional behaviour?

If I do not use any thread (i.e. use only prefork), can I
remove above added part of code from log.c for my web server?

I just did small test with changed code and it looks working fine.
(i.e. when I killed rotatelogs process, httpd respawned
 rotatelogs and keep logging!!)

I appreciate any comment or suggestion.


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takasima@poem.ocn.ne.jp

Re: Why apache2.0 does not rotatelogs process when it died

[Jeff Trawick <tr...@attglobal.net>]

Takashima, Makoto wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have question about rotatelogs process handling.
> 
> When apache is logging with rotatelogs and rotatelogs
> process died (e.g. accidentaly killed by someone),
> Apache-1.3 respawns rotatelogs process and keeps logging but
> Apache-2.0 does nothing and does not output log anymore.

Some code to fix this went into 2.0.45.