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[Res]

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:

> Brian Chadwick wrote:
>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>
> I'm terribly sorry but if the operating system finds itself out of
> memory, httpd will not have the time to write to it's own error_log.
> Instead, the process will be killed by the kernel. This event will be
> logged in /var/log/messages


This assumes memory as the problem, most often apache logs can reflect 
some form of an attack, just one of the myriad of ways a system hang may 
happen, but this also assumes the machine is not patched, or patched 
incorrectly or some other lil thing you have running that allows a 
compromise


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Res
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