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Cron newbie question in Sarge
Hi experts,
Every Sunday at 6:25am, I receive this message in /var/log/apache2/error.log
[Sun Nov 26 06:25:39 2006] [error] Init: Unable to read pass phrase [Hint: key introduced or changed before restart?]
It appears that cron(?) is restarting apache2 once per week, but I don't know how to stop that. I tried #crontab -e, but the cron job is not listed. I also looked in /etc/cron.weekly, but no luck either. I could try keychain, but how do I stop that job?
Other helpful info:
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#uname -a
Linux 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Thanks!
Every Sunday at 6:25am, I receive this message in /var/log/apache2/error.log
[Sun Nov 26 06:25:39 2006] [error] Init: Unable to read pass phrase [Hint: key introduced or changed before restart?]
It appears that cron(?) is restarting apache2 once per week, but I don't know how to stop that. I tried #crontab -e, but the cron job is not listed. I also looked in /etc/cron.weekly, but no luck either. I could try keychain, but how do I stop that job?
Other helpful info:
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#uname -a
Linux 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
Thanks!
Probably there is a script in /etc/cron.weekly which is doing it.
The way to stop a script in that dir from running is to remove its execute access:
chmod a-x {script name}
By way of explanation as to how this works, when you (as root) did crontab -e, did you notice a line like the one following?
30 4 * * 0 /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 1> /dev/null
(That one runs jobs at 0430hrs, yours will be different). /usr/bin/run-parts is a shell script - have a look if you are interested
The way to stop a script in that dir from running is to remove its execute access:
chmod a-x {script name}
By way of explanation as to how this works, when you (as root) did crontab -e, did you notice a line like the one following?
30 4 * * 0 /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.weekly 1> /dev/null
(That one runs jobs at 0430hrs, yours will be different). /usr/bin/run-parts is a shell script - have a look if you are interested
OTOH it could be what Tintin said. Especially seeing you looked in cron.weekly
The logrotate is actually invoked daily
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate
If you really want to stop apache from having logs rotated and being restarted (not sure why you'd want to do that), then just remove
/etc/logrotate.d/apache
/etc/logrotate.d/apache-ss
/etc/cron.daily/logrotate
If you really want to stop apache from having logs rotated and being restarted (not sure why you'd want to do that), then just remove
/etc/logrotate.d/apache
/etc/logrotate.d/apache-ss
ASKER
Tintin, yes, that is the cause. Thank you!
>>not sure why you'd want to do that
I have an SSL cert with passphrase, and when Apache2 restarts, it asks me for my passphrase though I'm not available to provide it, causing the web site to go down. I imagine this is a common problem. How would you fix that? My thought was to prevent the restart, but as you've pointed out, that would also affect the log rotation...
>>not sure why you'd want to do that
I have an SSL cert with passphrase, and when Apache2 restarts, it asks me for my passphrase though I'm not available to provide it, causing the web site to go down. I imagine this is a common problem. How would you fix that? My thought was to prevent the restart, but as you've pointed out, that would also affect the log rotation...
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thank you Tintin
See /etc/logrotate.d/apache*