Description of Problem: After a multiple amount of SIGHUP's - the Apache master process fails to fork children. How Reproducible: Send 5-6 SIGHUP signals to Apache master process Steps to Reproduce: 1. Find Apache master process with pstree command 2. Send SIGHUP signal five or six times 3. Test port 80 connections, or view pstree to see if children have respawned Actual Results: The apache server fails to respond to HTTP requests. Subsequent SIGHUP's have no result. The server requires a restart. Expected Results: Restart of server. Additional Information: For my system information - you may take a look at RHN for venus.underscoresolutions.com.au or mail me. This bug existed in even the standard version of Apache 1.3.19 from the redhat ftp site.
This bug seems to be fixed in the rpm 'apache-1.3.22-2'. This is a 7.2 package however. I am not aware if this bug is now repaired in the older 7.1.
Thanks for the report. This is a mass bug update; since this release of Red Hat Linux is no longer supported, please either: a) try and reproduce the bug with a supported version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora Core, and re-open this bug as appropriate after changing the Product field, or, b) if relevant, try and reproduce this bug using the current version of the upstream package, and report the bug upstream.
This bug is still reproducable on httpd-2.0.50-2.1 in FC2. Please reopen.