Graceful restart requested, doing restart

Hi.

Using Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora), it crashes suddenly and I must restart
it.

I've found this error message on a previous
'/var/log/httpd/error_log.2':
------------
[Sat Oct 08 02:01:57 2005] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing
restart
[Sat Oct 08 02:02:00 2005] [notice] Digest: generating secret for
digest authentication ...
[Sat Oct 08 02:02:00 2005] [notice] Digest: done
[Sat Oct 08 02:02:00 2005] [notice] LDAP: Built with OpenLDAP LDAP SDK
[Sat Oct 08 02:02:00 2005] [notice] LDAP: SSL support unavailable
[Sat Oct 08 02:02:01 2005] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session
mutexes based on 180 max processes and 0 max threads.
[Sat Oct 08 02:02:01 2005] [notice] Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora) configured
-- resuming normal operations
--------------

What's the meaning of this messages? I DID NOT restart my Apache server
at 02:00h
in the night.

Hi Davide.

Thank you very much for your answer.


Davide Bianchi wrote:
> > [Sat Oct 08 02:01:57 2005] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing
> > restart
>
> > What's the meaning of this messages?
>
> Informing you that the system was restarted.
OK

>
> > I DID NOT restart my Apache server > at 02:00h > in the night.
>
> But maybe your logrotate did it for you.
Mmm... It could be, because
---
[Sun Oct 09 04:03:57 2005] [notice] Graceful restart requested, doing
restart
----
is the last line of 'error_log.2'.

I've got some questions:
1) Why aren't there any message in '/var/log/boot.log' if Apache was
really shutdowned?
2) Why my server was stopped until I restarted it at 08:30h? Doesn't
logrotate start it?