[users@httpd] Apache Crashes!

[Mark Rinaudo <ma...@bowmansystems.com>]

I was awaken this morning to a phone call letting me know that our web
server was down.  Well the whole server did'nt take dump only Apache. 
This is the second time it's happened. I'm not sure if it's happening at
the same time ever time.  Apache is running with php and mod_ssl. I've
enclosed a snippet of the error log that i think is relevant to my
problem.  Has anyone else seen this error and what do you think may be
the cause. Oh the system is running Debian 3.0 with the 2.4.18 bf
kernel.

Server: Apache/1.3.26, Interface: mod_ssl/2.8.9, Library: OpenSSL/0.9.6g

I get a bunch of these error messages in the ssl_engine_log not sure if
it's an attack and if it's successfull or not. 

[18/Jul/2003 07:55:40 07799] [info]  Seeding PRNG with 23177 bytes of
entropy
[18/Jul/2003 07:55:40 07799] [error] SSL handshake interrupted by system
[Hint: Stop button pressed in browser?!] (System error follows)
[18/Jul/2003 07:55:40 07799] [error] System: Connection reset by peer
(errno: 104)
[18/Jul/2003 07:55:40 07799] [info]  Connection to child 9 established
(server www3.servicept.com:443, client 207.70.15.165)
[18/Jul/2003 07:55:40 07799] [info]  Seeding PRNG with 23177 bytes of
entropy
[18/Jul/2003 07:55:40 07799] [info]  Spurious SSL handshake
interrupt[Hint: Usually just one of those OpenSSL confusions!?]
[18/Jul/2003 07:55:40 07799] [info]  Connection to child 9 established
(server www3.servicept.com:443, client 24.199.227.54)
[18/Jul/2003 07:55:40 07799] [info]  Seeding PRNG with 23177 bytes of
entropy
[18/Jul/2003 07:55:40 07799] [error] SSL handshake interrupted by system
[Hint: Stop button pressed in browser?!] (System error follows)

I think it stopped responding around 7:55 here's what i got in the error
log

[Fri Jul 18 06:25:05 2003] [notice] SIGUSR1 received.  Doing graceful
restart
accept_mutex_on: Identifier removed
[Fri Jul 18 06:25:05 2003] [error] (2)No such file or directory:
mod_mime_magic: can't read magic file /etc/apache/share/magic
[Fri Jul 18 06:25:05 2003] [notice] Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian
GNU/Linux mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6g PHP/4.1.2 configured -- resuming
normal operations
[Fri Jul 18 06:25:05 2003] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper:
/usr/lib/apache/suexec)
[Fri Jul 18 06:25:05 2003] [notice] Accept mutex: sysvsem (Default:
sysvsem)
[Fri Jul 18 06:25:05 2003] [alert] Child 7574 returned a Fatal error... 
Apache is exiting!
[Fri Jul 18 07:45:38 2003] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake interrupted by
system [Hint: Stop button pressed in browser?!] (System error follows)
[Fri Jul 18 07:45:38 2003] [error] System: Connection reset by peer
(errno: 104)
[Fri Jul 18 07:45:38 2003] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake interrupted by
system [Hint: Stop button pressed in browser?!] (System error follows)
[Fri Jul 18 07:45:38 2003] [error] System: Connection reset by peer
(errno: 104)
[Fri Jul 18 07:55:39 2003] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake interrupted by
system [Hint: Stop button pressed in browser?!] (System error follows)
[Fri Jul 18 07:55:39 2003] [error] System: Connection reset by peer
(errno: 104)
[Fri Jul 18 07:55:39 2003] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake interrupted by
system [Hint: Stop button pressed in browser?!] (System error follows)
[Fri Jul 18 07:55:39 2003] [error] System: Connection reset by peer
(errno: 104)
[Fri Jul 18 07:55:40 2003] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake interrupted by
system [Hint: Stop button pressed in browser?!] (System error follows)
[Fri Jul 18 07:55:40 2003] [error] System: Connection reset by peer
(errno: 104)
[Fri Jul 18 07:55:40 2003] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake interrupted by
system [Hint: Stop button pressed in browser?!] (System error follows)
[Fri Jul 18 07:55:40 2003] [error] System: Connection reset by peer
(errno: 104)
[Fri Jul 18 07:55:40 2003] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake interrupted by
system [Hint: Stop button pressed in browser?!] (System error follows)
[Fri Jul 18 07:55:40 2003] [error] System: Connection reset by peer
(errno: 104)
[Fri Jul 18 07:55:40 2003] [error] mod_ssl: SSL handshake interrupted by
system [Hint: Stop button pressed in browser?!] (System error follows)
[Fri Jul 18 07:55:40 2003] [error] System: Connection reset by peer
(errno: 104)
[Fri Jul 18 08:01:39 2003] [error] (2)No such file or directory:
mod_mime_magic: can't read magic file /etc/apache/share/magic
[Fri Jul 18 08:01:40 2003] [crit] (98)Address already in use: make_sock:
could not bind to port 443
[Fri Jul 18 08:03:24 2003] [error] (2)No such file or directory:
mod_mime_magic: can't read magic file /etc/apache/share/magic


Then what you see is my colleague's attempt to restart the apache
server. Can anybody shed some light on this?

TIA
Mark Rinaudo