Apache can't bind during log rotate

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From: Graham Miller
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 1997 00:00

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Hi there,

I have a Red Hat Linux 4.2 system running Apache out of the box. All works
well except I kept getting console messages overnight:

httpd: could not bind to port 80
bind: address already in use

I have changed the crontab file to activate .daily during the day and they
seem to come while the logs are being rotated.

I have not played with the /etc/logrotate.d/apache file which uses:

postrotate
	killall -HUP httpd
endscript

Elsewhere on the Web (the apache site I think) I have seen the following
recommended:

/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/httpd.pid`

Can anyone shed some light on this? And is it likely that logrotate is the
culprit?

Thanks
Graham

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From: "Graham Miller" <graham@gmcs.com.au>
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Date: 1997/11/09
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