How to identify httpd jobs on SuSE 9.0?

Neelix1976 · 08-25-2004, 02:37 AM

Hi there!

I have several apache calls via lynx at night. Every morning two jobs are still there and running, and I don't know which these are. In /var/log/https/access_log aren't any calls logged at the time the jobs started refering to ps.

Is there a possibility to find out which calls are still running in the morning?

Thanx
Neelix

Thoreau · 08-25-2004, 03:28 AM

How do you know there are jobs still running if you can't find or see them running? I don't get that. General rule, for processes- ps aux, for network netstat -an. I don't know what else you're looking for exactly. If you mean a process trace like ptrace, that will show subthreads, then that's another. but I'm still kinda lost here.

Neelix1976 · 08-25-2004, 06:43 AM

I see the processes as

Code:

/usr/sbin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

in the processlist, so I have their pid and the time they started, but there isn't an entry in the access_log at this time. So how do I know which two of my scripts are still running?

Neelix

trickykid · 08-25-2004, 06:50 AM

They don't show up with a: ps -aux | grep httpd ?

Neelix1976 · 08-25-2004, 08:00 AM

They DO show up:

Code:

wwwrun    5106  4.4  0.9 100404 19364 ?      S    04:29  28:05 /usr/sbin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
wwwrun    6539  3.3  0.8 97924 16816 ?       S    05:00  19:54 /usr/sbin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

But what next?

Neelix

stickman · 08-25-2004, 01:41 PM

Do you have any sort of log rotation / httpd restart scripts? How do you know their "started with lynx" if there are no entries in the access log? These could simply be the normal child processes for your httpd daemon if it was built with the prefork module.

Neelix1976 · 08-26-2004, 01:42 AM

Ok, you are right: I *think* that these are two of the scripts started over night with lynx, but I don't really know. Last night the two scripts started both at 4:15am and are still running with 3 and 16 percent cpu time. There is indeed a log rotation running, and the last days files were always rotated at exact 4:15am. But yesterday the jobs startet at 4:29am and 5:00am.

How can I find out if these processes are normal child processes or still running http-scripts?

stickman · 08-26-2004, 10:23 AM

Why do suspect lynx? Do you see lynx in your process table? Lynx is a terminal browser, and it's not used to start Apache. What you are seeing is probably a log rotation or cron script. Check your ps output to see what the parent process is.

Neelix1976 · 08-27-2004, 01:28 AM

The parent process is another httpd process, obviously the root apache process:

Code:

root     21906     1  0 Aug26 ?        00:00:07 /usr/sbin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
...
wwwrun   15515 21906  6 04:29 ?        00:15:05 /usr/sbin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf
wwwrun   16450 21906  7 04:49 ?        00:15:07 /usr/sbin/httpd -f /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

Neelix