signal Bus error (7) - apache/ httpd
 

ANybody knows what the error message mean?

[Sun May 29 09:24:15 2005] [notice] child pid 7398 exit signal Bus error (7)
[Sun May 29 13:01:08 2005] [warn] child process 7518 still did not exit, sending a SIGTERM

They are showing up in my RHEL3 U4's /var/log/messages file.

kind regards.

The first error "Bus Error" is caused by someones (possibly CGI) program crashing. A bus error happens when someone wrote a C program for Intel and re-compiled it for another processor like PPC or Mips that does not support misalligned memory access. Really all it means is someone is running buggy software on your server machine.
The second error could also be a CGI program that hangs longer than the server's timeout, so its killed. Probably another buggy program.