[CentOS] problems with apache downgrade

Jim Perrin
Thu, 11 Jul 2013 23:59:51 -0000

On 7/11/13 4:56 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> There was an upgrade on a couple of our servers yesterday, mid-afternoon
> our time, of httpd and httpd-devel, and suddenly SiteMinder (bleah)
> stopped working correctly, and is now pegging a cpu, according to top. So,
> as a last resort, I tried downgrading both of them. When I did so, the
> server that uses ssl *erased* mod-ssl, not downgrading it, and I'll
have
> to find where I can get the previous version tomorrow... but that
> shouldn't happen, I should think. Downgrade *should* get everything,
> unless it's brand new, and this isn't.

In a previous life we had to use SiteMinder as well. It pegs top because
it's trying to dump a log file but it doesn't deal with the permissions
properly. If I recall correctly it tries to dump to /var/log/httpd, but
as the apache user, not as root. Once the apache user has access to
write the log to where it's configured, it'll spool out the memory
it's
using and the load will drop after a while.